Phenomenologist
In philosophy and sociology a phenomenologist applies the method termed "phenomenology" by Edmund Husserl to analyze nature, reality or social interactions.
In particle physics, a phenomenologist is a theoretical physicist whose primary goal is to understand the current experiments and experiments to be done in near future. Phenomenologists are usually those who do not work on string theory.
A closely related word is model builder.
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Categories: Physics experiments