magician

noun

1. A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
2. (derogatory, sometimes)A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.

   “The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.”

3. A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.
4. An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
5. A person who astounds; an enigma.