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The discovery is part of the Dutch national QuMat program, which focuses on designing next-generation quantum materials through tight collaboration between experimentalists and theorists.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
Some theorists openly celebrate unchecked executive power or regimes that derive legitimacy from hierarchy rather than the people’s consent.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
Their favorite philosophers are not Locke and Mill but Plato, Aquinas, or even Carl Schmitt, the Nazi theorist of authoritarianism.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
One evening, the couple met an acquaintance of Lotringer’s, the cultural theorist Dick Hebdige, for sushi in Pasadena.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
Some theorists openly celebrate unchecked executive power or regimes that derive legitimacy from hierarchy rather than the people’s consent.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
Their favorite philosophers are not Locke and Mill but Plato, Aquinas, or even Carl Schmitt, the Nazi theorist of authoritarianism.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
One evening, the couple met an acquaintance of Lotringer’s, the cultural theorist Dick Hebdige, for sushi in Pasadena.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Theorist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theorist. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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theorist
noun
the·o·rist
ˈthē-ə-rəst 
ˈthi(-ə)r-əst
: a person who theorizes
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