She is, she says, a populariser, with the job of making religious doctrine more accessible. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Armstrong: The compassionate face of religion] Reference
As a lecturer, a theoriser, and a populariser of his art, Haydon has just claims to grateful remembrance. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Exhibition, blue plaque and BBC slot for William Astbury, a populariser interested in permed hair and poached eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Sidelined scientist who came close to discovering DNA is celebrated at last] Reference
The author stands beside Simon Schama as a populariser of history whose work also represents the widest knowledge and highest scholarship. From Wordnik.com. [A British historian takes on the U.S., Kazin takes aim at presidential histories, and more in the book reviews] Reference
In it I recorded that the great populariser of Popper's thought in Britain, Bryan Magee, mentions this warehouse in his memoirs Growing Up in a War. From Wordnik.com. [Bryan Magee: Philosophy on Youtube] Reference
He published at least some technical articles and could easily turn his hand to the dissemination of academic information: he wasn't only a populariser. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Not quite, Dr Karl famous Australian science populariser and runner of the “War on error” science fair will no doubt have something to say about this. From Wordnik.com. [News Roundup - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
However, I'm not a libertarian, nor a populist more of a populariser of elitism, so I'm not all that invested in the ideas that are going to be refined over at The Western Standard. From Wordnik.com. [It's a simple principle, really.] Reference
He cannot perhaps be regarded as typical of the morphologists of his time -- he was too trenchantly materialistic, too much the populariser of a crude and commonplace philosophy of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
It turns out though that Kaku who has 4 black belts can shatter a stack of D-branes with a single karate blow, and takes on the string mob, joined by fellow populariser Brian Greene played by Steven Seagal. From Wordnik.com. [The String Kings] Reference
A superb diplomatist, a masterful populariser of economics, a humble philosopher who has walked with pundits yet kept his common touch, Professor Galbraith now allows us a glimpse of yet another aspect of his protean genius. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Ken] Reference
As well as being a leading theoretical physicist, Brian Greene is an ardent scientific populariser, with a number of best-selling books to his name including the children's book, Icarus at the Edge of Time, published two years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Icarus at the Edge of Time] Reference
I assume then that if and when in the future you happen to attend a talk by a string populariser which presents a distorted picture of the actual state of affairs you will call him/her on it just as vehemently as you did with Krauss. From Wordnik.com. [From the Sublime to the Ridiculous] Reference
Alan Turing drew much between 1928 and 1933 from the work of the mathematical physicist and populariser A.S. Eddington, from J. von Neumann's account of the foundations of quantum mechanics, and then from Bertrand Russell's mathematical logic. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Turing] Reference
Though Peterson has sometimes been criticised as a musician in thrall to his own runaway technique, he remained a great virtuoso of piano jazz, and an equally effective populariser of the music among those who might otherwise not have encountered it. —. From Wordnik.com. [Come Fly With Me] Reference
But a talented science populariser can be a policy flake. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Perhaps the leading current populariser of the idea is Niall Ferguson. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference
Bede did in his, that of a compiler and populariser of existing knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
Buffon may justly be acclaimed as the first populariser of natural history. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
She is both academic and populariser, and writes a mind-blowing column in centre-left daily. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
For the great populariser of the unconscious and its role in our psyche, it would seem that. From Wordnik.com. [Still Point] Reference
The average poetry buff, confronted by the well-meaning populariser, makes a pub full of diehard. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Yesterday, he donned his space-cadet uniform after watching science populariser Karl Kruszelnicki. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Alan Peppard on Bruce Willis, Greg Kinnear, Craig Hall, Jamie Niven] Reference
Over here Sir Patrick Moore is an enthusiastic populariser of astronomy with maverick right wing views. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
Even the late, great populariser of science as fiction, Michael Crichton, couldn't have thought this one up. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
But then Ross is entirely without Kenny's true gifts, which are those of an outstanding interviewer and populariser of serious ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Roman Empire, especially as of the 3rd century A.D. Michael Grant is probably the foremost contemporary populariser of Greco-Roman history. From Wordnik.com. [Le Québécois Libre] Reference
He was a very prolific writer on natural history, though rather as a populariser than as a scientific investigator, and was in this way very successful. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
Greenson was himself something of a showman, a virtuosic teacher and a great populariser of psychoanalysis who frequently gave public lectures, some of which Marilyn would attend in a range of dowdy disguises. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
So a biography is in order of the man who was one of the most important formative figures in SF fandom and is credited as the populariser of the term 'sci-fi'. From Wordnik.com. [Forrest J. Ackerman has passed away] Reference
(before the 1860s) and explains the role of Thomas Arnold (and his populariser Thomas Hughes author of Tom Brown's Schooldays) in creating the public school value system which is reinforced by cricket. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
Dawkins is a populariser and rhetorician. From Wordnik.com. [Demarcation as Politics] Reference
Here the Apologue found its populariser in. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
As a populariser of economics he is without peer. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
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