Al-Kindi was the first great theoretician of Arabic music.
There were also those, epitomized by Richard Reti, Czechoslovakia's great theoretician, who disdained tactical play and combinations.
Al-Kindi was the first great theoretician of music in the Arab-Islamic world.
Janet, the other great theoretician of hysteria, argued that symptoms arose through the power of suggestion, acting on a personality vulnerable to dissociation.
I'm just a radiochemist, you know; and no great theoretician, unless you want to count a few concepts now and then.
Some great theoreticians, like Reuben Fine, swore by it in the mid-1940's.
Sometimes not even celebrated generals can see through what Clausewitz, the great Prussian military theoretician, described as "the fog of war."
They may be great theoreticians, but were unable to help teachers with the lesson plan for the next school week.
This is not an immediate advantage, but as the great theoretician Siegbert Tarrasch said, "He who has the bishops has the future."
Marx was a great theoretician only because he was, and only for as long as he was, a great historian.