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Popularizer

noun

Someone who makes attractive to the general public. Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer.

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... department has its perils for those who succeed. The "people who fail" take their revenge, as we have recently had occasion to observe, by ignoring all the rest of a man's work and glibly labelling him a more popularizer. If the falsehood were not too glaring, they would say the same of Faraday and ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

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... renowned mathematician, founded his journal Ha-Zefirah ("The Morningstar") in 1872. It was issued first in Berlin and later in Warsaw. He himself wrote a large number of articles in it, in his chosen field as popularizer of ...

— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz

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... exclusive stress on the flashy ones to the detriment of those containing much that is noble and of enduring worth. In his transcriptions of standard songs Liszt did as valuable a public service as any popularizer, and has thereby made familiar the melodies of Schubert and Schumann to hundreds who otherwise would know nothing of them. In considering Liszt's pianoforte works we must remember that he was a born virtuoso with a natural fondness for exploiting the possibilities of his instrument, and ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

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