experimentalists
Hands-on researchers
Experimentalists are people who favor experiment over theory—scientists who test hypotheses in laboratories rather than working from equations, artists who push beyond conventional forms, or anyone who prefers trying things to speculating about them.
The department was split between theorists and experimentalists.
The singular is experimentalist.
Philosophers favoring sensory knowledge
- researchersThose who study systematically
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
observation · data · analysis · variables · replication · falsifiability · quantitative · qualitative
Innovative cultural pioneers
- modernistsAdvocates of contemporary approaches
- improvisersThose creating spontaneously
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
- mavericksUnorthodox, independent-minded people
nonconformists · surrealists · practitioners · composers · instrumentalists · performers · multimedia · installation
Scientists studying matter, energy
- chemistsScientists studying substances
- biologistsScientists studying living things
- neuroscientistsResearchers of neural systems
- pharmacologistsExperts in medication effects
geneticists · psychologists · sociologists · anthropologists · economists · ecologists · geologists · acousticians
First to explore territory
- cutting-edgeAt innovation's forefront
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- inventionNew device or method
novelty · unconventional · prototype · originality · ingenuity · trailblazing · avant-garde · radical
empiricists
Philosophers favoring sensory knowledge
- researchersThose who study systematically
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
methodology · observation · data · analysis · variables · replication · falsifiability · quantitative · qualitative · phenomena
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- modernistsAdvocates of contemporary approaches
- improvisersThose creating spontaneously
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
mavericks · nonconformists · surrealists · practitioners · composers · instrumentalists · performers · multimedia · installation · conceptual
physicists
Scientists studying matter, energy
- chemistsScientists studying substances
- biologistsScientists studying living things
- neuroscientistsResearchers of neural systems
pharmacologists · geneticists · psychologists · sociologists · anthropologists · economists · ecologists · geologists · acousticians
pioneering
First to explore territory
- cutting-edgeAt innovation's forefront
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- creativityCapacity for original thought
invention · novelty · unconventional · prototype · originality · ingenuity · trailblazing · avant-garde · radical · boundary-pushing
- trailblazerstrailblazers, pioneers, innovators, groundbreakers, forerunners
- innovatorsinnovator, innovators, inventor, pioneers, pioneer
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
experimentaliststheorists
Builders of explanatory frameworks
theoreticians · theoretical physicists · speculators · metaphysicians · rationalists
experimentalistsdogmatists
Believers in fixed principles
doctrinaires · ideologues · scholastics · metaphysicians · rationalists
experimentaliststraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
conventionalists · conformists · conservatives · classicists · purists