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- noun A person who can
communicate technical orscientific ideas to ageneral public
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Examples
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Through his books he has been a great populizer of scientific ideas although the anti-global warming crusade is a bit of an issue there and he of course created the genre of the techno-thriller.
Archive 2008-11-01 Tripp 2008
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Through his books he has been a great populizer of scientific ideas although the anti-global warming crusade is a bit of an issue there and he of course created the genre of the techno-thriller.
Michael Crichton Tripp 2008
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The brilliant astrophysicist and best selling populizer of science, slipping the bonds of gravity after nearly four decades in a wheelchair.
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Although a classicist by training, she is a dedicated populizer of information and ideas.
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The French scholar and populizer of ancient philosophy has passed away.
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In addition to Sagan's being a great astronomer, he was a grand populizer of science, especially with his series for PBS, Cosmos.
Capitol Annex 2009
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Finally, she had a strong role model in Mary Somerville, the so-called "Queen of Science," her overcame her own family's objections to become a great populizer of scientific treatises by LaPlace ad Newton, for example.
Cocktail Party Physics Jennifer Ouellette 2009
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"Local free radio is the unique developer, exposer, promoter, and great populizer of new and old music, to multiple new and old generations of listeners."
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Unfortunately, it’s hard for a peripatetic mathematician/philosopher to make that kind of name for himself as a populizer of science for the hoi-polloi and unnoticed novelist.
David Berlinski interviews self, calls self "crank" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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You see, at about that same age, 12 or 13, I’d already met the great populizer who had inspired a love of science that had to remain unrequited for the most part.
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