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Lucasian

/luːˈkeɪziən/

adjective 3
noun 1
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adjective3

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Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
- In 1979, Stephen Hawking became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, one of Britain’s most distinguished chairs, and one formerly held by Isaac Newton.
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Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
- Lucas is the intellectual leader of this approach, which I shall refer to as Lucasian. — 1982
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(rare) Of or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
- He was looking down at our seven-pound lump of innocence, his mind unblemished by Lucasian mythology. "Can you believe he doesn't know about Star Wars yet?" — 2002

noun1

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A follower of the theories of American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
- In this, I have probably devoted too much attention to the economists whom I label Lucasians […] — 1982

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Lucasians

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