experimentalist
noun
ex·per·i·men·tal·ist
ik-ˌsper-ə-ˈmen-tə-ləst 
also -ˌspir-
: one who experiments
specifically
: a person conducting scientific experiments
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Though best known for his work on the alto and soprano saxophone, Benjamin was a versatile multi-instrumentalist and daring experimentalist.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
During the announcement, Alex Zylstra, the principal experimentalist for the 5 December shot, said that the research team would sweat laser-alignment discrepancies on the order of trillionths of a meter and time discrepancies of 25 trillionths of a second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2022
But creating a market for great experimentalists is always challenging.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
The scientific community consists of theorists, data analysts, and experimentalists who collaborate to uncover these laws.
—Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023
The giants of 18th- and 19th-century math — Euler, Gauss, Riemann — were all experimentalists who relied on massive amounts of computation, done laboriously by hand.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
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For many decades, exploring fitness landscapes was primarily the reserve of theoreticians working with simulated organisms, or pioneering experimentalists working on a relatively small scale.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
For the real experimentalists, Bless does well, and not just the apparel, but the objects.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
An experimentalist with a taste for the Black avant-garde, Whack broke onto the music scene in 2018 with Whack World, a 15-track, 15-minute-long mini-album brimming with invention and whimsy.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
During the announcement, Alex Zylstra, the principal experimentalist for the 5 December shot, said that the research team would sweat laser-alignment discrepancies on the order of trillionths of a meter and time discrepancies of 25 trillionths of a second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2022
But creating a market for great experimentalists is always challenging.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
The scientific community consists of theorists, data analysts, and experimentalists who collaborate to uncover these laws.
—Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023
The giants of 18th- and 19th-century math — Euler, Gauss, Riemann — were all experimentalists who relied on massive amounts of computation, done laboriously by hand.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Share this article Newsletter Get Quanta Magazine delivered to your inbox
Introduction
For many decades, exploring fitness landscapes was primarily the reserve of theoreticians working with simulated organisms, or pioneering experimentalists working on a relatively small scale.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
For the real experimentalists, Bless does well, and not just the apparel, but the objects.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
An experimentalist with a taste for the Black avant-garde, Whack broke onto the music scene in 2018 with Whack World, a 15-track, 15-minute-long mini-album brimming with invention and whimsy.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
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1762, in the meaning defined above
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experimentalist
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ex·per·i·men·tal·ist
-ᵊl-əst
: a person conducting scientific experiments
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