Definitions
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- n. Alternative spelling of popularizer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who makes attractive to the general public
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is directly linked to Paracelsus who i have argued about already as the key 'populariser' of this idea - but am not supposed to be able to raise again, so I won't!
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She is, she says, a populariser, with the job of making religious doctrine more accessible.
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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.
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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.
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Jane Marcet, encouraged by her husband, Alexander Marcet FRS, published the first truly bestselling scientific populariser for young people in 1806.
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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. —
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Exhibition, blue plaque and BBC slot for William Astbury, a populariser interested in permed hair and poached eggs
Sidelined scientist who came close to discovering DNA is celebrated at last
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William Astbury, a brilliant populariser who also used poached eggs and pigs' ears to gain public interest and funding, took the first x-ray photographs of the "building bricks of life" 15 years before Watson and Crick's famous breakthrough.
Sidelined scientist who came close to discovering DNA is celebrated at last
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It is a cruel twist of fate that he was taken from us so young – I can only imagine that, as David Attenborough has matured and reached his prime as a truly monumental populariser of science and nature, so would Carl Sagan have.
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The author stands beside Simon Schama as a populariser of history whose work also represents the widest knowledge and highest scholarship.
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