Meanings of great exponent in English

Stanley Hall, that great exponent of genetic psychology and all that it stands for.

Not so, however, the great exponent of popular sovereignty, Douglas.

In particular, he is a great exponent of holding his breath and going into a trance.

Then what about that other great exponent of the Bad Hair Day, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson?

The Irish writer Frank O'Connor was a great exponent of the type of short story where a life-changing event occurred.

Himeno is a great exponent of this as a mobile eighthman but he admits that he can still perfect the craft further.

Such fantastic conceits, which for a period blighted the literature of the leading European nations, had their last great exponent in Cotton Mather.

Who was then the great exponent of reaction, and of antagonism to liberal and progressive opinions, during the reigns of the restored Bourbons?

The story of science is the story of intellectual freedom, of technology, of our "ascent", as its great exponent Jacob Bronowski showed.

If Wright had systematically applied his powers, he might have preceded or supplanted Herbert Spencer as the great exponent of the theory of evolution.

Plutarch, who lived from about 50 A.D. to 117 or so, is our great exponent of this old religion.

He is the father of modern realism and remains its greatest exponent.

The medical profession is represented by some of its greatest exponents.

It found its greatest exponent in Voltaire, the oracle and idol of intellectual Europe.

Emerson was the greatest exponent of this new philosophy, which made its appearance here in 1836.

Laotse and Soshi (Chuangtse) were both Southerners and the greatest exponents of the New School.