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Professor and Jameson
* Neil R. Jones's Professor Jameson series ( 1931 – 1989 )
It is from the Zoromes, beginning with their first appearance in " The Jameson Satellite ," that I got my own feeling for benevolent robots who could serve man with decency, as these had served Professor Jameson.
In addition, the Regius Professor of Natural History, Robert Jameson, was the probable author of an anonymous paper in 1826 praising " Mr. Lamarck " for explaining how the higher animals had " evolved " from the " simplest worms " – this was the first use of the word " evolved " in a modern sense.
He had married Mary, daughter of George Jameson, painter, and widow of Peter Burnet of Elrick, Aberdeen ; their son James was Professor of Physics at King's College Aberdeen.
In 1823 he became assistant to Robert Jameson, the Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh.
His former student Robert Jameson, who later became Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh, founded the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1808 honour of Werner, which, while debating many aspects of natural history, was a bastion of the Wernerian view of the earth.
Professor Robert Jameson, FRS FRSE ( 1774 – 1854 ) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.
As Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship in natural history, his superb museum collection, and for his tuition of Charles Darwin.
By 1793, influenced by the Regius Professor of Natural History, John Walker ( 1731 – 1803 ), Jameson abandoned medicine and the idea of being a ship's surgeon, and focused instead on science, particularly geology and mineralogy.
In 1804, Jameson succeeded Dr Walker as the third Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, a post which he held for fifty years.
-Biography of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, which notes that Starr's '... chief Gamaliel, however, was a Professor Grant, a man of advanced age, who had been a pupil of his great-uncle, the Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh.
Thomas joined Edinburgh University in 1828 as a literary student but attended classes in natural history by Professor Robert Jameson.
He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called " The American Sherlock Holmes ," and his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels.
Storm Jameson wrote three volumes of autobiography ; a biography by Jennifer Birkett, Professor of French Studies at Birmingham University, was published by the Oxford University Press in March 2009.
Darwin also took the popular natural history course of Professor Robert Jameson, learning about stratigraphic geology.
In 1975, he was invited to Yale University to teach Japanese literature as a Visiting Professor, where he met Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson and began to work on formalism.

Professor and cyborg
) The Professor also advises him that even though his body is that of a cyborg, his " heart and soul " is that of Hazama.
The Professor tells Hazama / 8-Man that he had installed a behavior circuit breaker in 8-man when the cyborg body was being developed to prevent it from running amok.
When the Professor later speaks to the Chief about 8-Man's " malfunction " on the football field he says " the cyborg brain I implanted should have prevented this ".

Professor and pulp
He wrote the 1937 pulp title Murder of a Professor and short stories for a number of magazines, including Money from Heaven ( 1942 ).

Professor and hero
The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.
Wolverine acknowledges that Professor Xavier allowed him to become a hero.
Jo did reject Laurie to marry Professor Bhaer who “ is no schoolgirl ’ s hero, but Jo believes he is better suited to her than Laurie.
* In the Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the character Professor Ratigan ( the archnemesis of Basil of Baker Street, the film's Holmes-trained hero ) is an obvious parallel and tribute to the character of Moriarty.
In popular literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the falls as the location of the final fight of hero Sherlock Holmes with his nemesis Professor Moriarty.
The town and the falls are known worldwide as the setting for a fictional event: it is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, fights to the death with his archnemesis, Professor Moriarty, at the end of The Final Problem.
Given the outlandish idea that a blind man could be a detective, in the introduction to the second Carrados book The Eyes of Max Carrados Bramah compared his hero ’ s achievements to those of real life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough the road builder, John Fielding the Bow Street Magistrate of whom it was said he could identify 3, 000 thieves by their voices, and Helen Keller.
According to Professor Richard Nelson Frye, Cyrus – whose abilities as conqueror and administrator Frye says are attested by the longevity and vigor of the Achaemenian empire – held an almost mythic role among the Persian people " similar to that of Romulus and Remus in Rome or Moses for the Israelites ", with a story that " follows in many details the stories of hero and conquerors from elsewhere in the ancient world ".< ref name = Frye >" Cyrus II ".
Herbert tries flirting with the confused and terrified " hero " ( Wenn Liebe in dir Ist ), which culminates with him lunging at Alfred's neck, but the Professor comes in the nick of time and scares the younger vampire off with a crucifix.
In this series, Professor Moriarty is an antihero ( and sometimes a real hero ) who resignedly tolerates Holmes's obsessively exaggerated opinion of his criminal empire, and is often brought into reluctant alliance with his nemesis in order to counter menaces ranging from threats to their associates to threats to the nation.
In a chart of antediluvian generations in Babylonian and Biblical traditions, Professor William Wolfgang Hallo associates Alulim with the composite half-man, half-fish counselor or culture hero ( Apkallu ) Uanna-Adapa ( Oannes ), and suggests an equivalence between Alulim and Enosh in the Sethite genealogy given in Genesis chapter 5.
: After the thwarting of his gun-running operation, meant to alter the course of British politics, the villain, Professor Ormsby, challenges the hero, Commander Stevenson, with the phrase De mortuis nil nisi bonum, to imply that he, Prof. Ormsby, would kill himself, for which reason Commander Stevenson would cancel the news-media campaign with which he had planned to publicly discredit Ormsby as a traitor.
While Professor X is able to assist Wolverine with powers of telepathy, the surly comic book hero must ultimately carry out his adventure alone.

Professor and by
I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).
Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.
A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.
Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.
Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.
The modern beef breed was developed in the 1950s by Professor Hanset, working at an artificial insemination centre in Liege province.
Traditional bundle theory, according to Professor Dustin Moriarty, explains the compresence of properties by defining an object as a collection of properties bound together.
Thesis submitted to The Faculty of Columbian School of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts ; directed by Andrew Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of History.
These were donated by Professor Fred Wendorf of Southern Methodist University in Texas, and comprise the entire collection of artefacts and environmental remains from his excavations between 1963 and 1997.
* IPR Toolkit – An Overview, Key Issues and Toolkit Elements ( September 2009 ) by Professor Charles Oppenheim and Naomi Korn at the Strategic Content Alliance
In this article, he also defended a comment made by Professor Griff in the past that he says was taken out of context by the media.
* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.
In 2010, Caltech, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and headed by Professor Nathan Lewis, established a DOE Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.
The process – carried out partly at “ revolutionary universities ” and partly within prisons – was investigated and reported upon by Robert Jay Lifton, then Research Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University: see Lifton ( 1961 ).
Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor, did not secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works which " Currer Bell " might wish to send.
* The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, submitted at first along with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, then separately, and rejected in either form by many publishing houses, published posthumously in 1857
To ensure that all aspects of the building's performance in strong winds will be acceptable, a detailed wind tunnel study was carried out by Professor Alan Davenport at the BLWT at the UWO.

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