Word: theoretician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khrushchev said on another occasion, "Andrei Andreyevich is an excellent diplomat and tactician; he knows negotiations from A to Z. But as an ideologist and theoretician he's rather poor. He has little taste for theorizing. But we're working on him. We'll make something...
Jerne's contribution to immunology is more fundamental. Born in London to Danish parents, he did not earn his M.D. until age 40, but, as the Nobel Committee observed, he quickly distinguished himself as "the great theoretician in immunology." His major theories explain how the immune system develops and matures and how its component cells are regulated. A modest man, Jerne remains less impressed with his achievement than with the object of his study. "The immune system now seems more complex than when I started out," he said last week. "I am less optimistic that we will ever...
...Theoretician Gerard Debreu wins the Nobel Prize
...Earlier this year he helped persuade Reagan to temper his arms-control stance to win congressional support for the MX missile. For the past twelve weeks he has performed ably as a special envoy to the Middle East, opening channels to Syria in the Lebanese negotiations. McFarlane is no theoretician in the Kissinger-Brzezinski mold, but he is intimate with the substance of national security. As a no-nonsense National Security Adviser, McFarlane would have a vastly better technical grounding than Clark and, perhaps as a result, devote less attention to White House infighting...
...perfunctory graveside eulogies give the full measure of the man they were meant to honor. Perhaps no ceremony could truly convey the sheer magnitude of the political and social upheaval Karl Marx's writings have wrought around the world. Still, few disciples of the German theoretician of Communism seemed to know last week just how to observe the 100th anniversary of his death...