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unusual facts about professor emeritus



Avishai Margalit

Avishai Margalit (hebr. ‏אבישי מרגלית, b. 1939 in Afula, British Mandate for Palestine, today Israel), is an Israeli George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Berkeley Geochronology Center

It was originally a research group in the laboratory of University of California Berkeley geophysicist and geochronologist Garniss Curtis, now professor emeritus.

Bernard Gilmore

Bernard Howard Gilmore (November 19, 1937 – April 17, 2013) was an American composer, conductor, French horn player, and Professor Emeritus of music at the University of California, Irvine.

Charles C. Holt

Charles C. Holt (21 May 1921 – 13 December 2010) was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Charles François Lhomond

Later he spent twenty years as an educator at the Collège du Cardinal-Lemoine in the Latin Quarter of Paris, and afterwards was professor emeritus at the University of Paris.

Clinton Ballou

Clinton Edward Ballou (born 1923 in King Hill, Idaho, to William Clinton Ballou and "Mollie" Ballou) is a Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo.

Ellen Preis

After retiring she remained active as Professor Emeritus of the Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst (University for Music and Performing Arts) in Vienna, and coaching the Openstudio of the Vienna Staatsoper and the Burgtheater, working together with directors, singers, and actors, and helping ensure that fencing performed in plays was properly done.

F. Landa Jocano

Jocano served as Professor Emeritus at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and Executive Director of PUNLAD Research House, Inc.

Garniss Curtis

Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 ~ died December 19, 2012) was a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.

George L. Kelm

George L. Kelm (born 1931) is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Biblical Backgrounds at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, and while serving at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, he and Amihai Mazar uncovered Timnah.

History of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent

Based on archaeological and textual evidence, Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008)—a University of Minnesota professor emeritus of geography—traces the origins of Indian cartography to the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2500–1900 BCE).

Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

It was published by Continuum Press in 2004 and edited by Matthew Kapell (later publishing as Matthew Wilhelm Kapell), anthropological historian, and William G. Doty, professor emeritus of religious studies and religion at the University of Alabama.

James E. Miller

(1920–2010) was an American scholar and the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he completed his graduate work, taught, and served as chairman of the English department.

James L. Reveal

Reveal is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, adjunct professor at Cornell University's Department of Plant Biology and honorary curator at the New York Botanical Garden.

John Dizikes

John Dizikes Ph.D. (born 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German and American computer scientist and a professor emeritus at MIT.

Karla Jessen Williamson

Williamson was married to Dr. Robert Gordon Williamson (1931-2012, Oxley, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England), an anthropologist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan.

Kenkichi Oshima

He then accepted the post of professor emeritus (and later Vice President) of Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, where he undertook reforms of the athletic department to strengthen the Japanese team in preparation for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Madeleine Leininger

She was Professor Emeritus of Nursing at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Oleg D. Jefimenko

Oleg Dmitrovich Jefimenko (October 14, 1922, Kharkiv, Ukraine - May 14, 2009, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA) - physicist and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University.

Ralph Raphael

He was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1957-1972, and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Head of the Department of Chemistry (in reality of Theoretical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry since Physical Chemistry was a separate department until the early 1980s) at Cambridge University, 1972-88, then Honorary Fellow and Professor Emeritus.

Serge Guinchard

He is a French jurist and Professor emeritus at Panthéon-Assas University, a post he assumed after leaving positions at the Law School of Dakar and Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.

Slichter Foreland

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Louis B. Slichter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, who has been involved with planning scientific programs for the South Pole Station, and who has trained a number of geophysicists who have gone to Antarctica to implement those programs.

Tatu Vanhanen

Tatu Vanhanen (born April 17, 1929 in Vuoksenranta, Finland, now Ozyorskoye, Russia) is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere in Tampere, Finland.

Ulrich Willerding

Ulrich Willerding (born 1932 in Querfurt, Germany) is a professor emeritus of botany at the Göttingen University, Germany.


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114094 Irvpatterson

It is named after W. Irwin Patterson, a professor emeritus of biology at Texas Lutheran University.

114096 Haroldbier

It is named after Harold D. Bier, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Texas Lutheran University.

Alexander William Bickerton

He died on 21 January 1929 holding the title of Professor Emeritus of Canterbury College.

Ann Lambton

As Professor Emeritus of the Diocese of Newcastle and Chairman of the Iran Diocesan Association, Lambton served on the Middle East Committee and advised Archbishops on inter-faith matters.

Anthony Aristar

Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar (born in Cape Town, South Africa, 1948) is a linguist, the founder of the LINGUIST List, an important linguistic resource on the web, and a professor emeritus of linguistics at Eastern Michigan University.

Anthony Parel

Parel now occupies the post of Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

Austin Wright

Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 Yonkers, New York – April 23, 2003 Cincinnati) was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Carlo Pedretti

Pedretti is a professor emeritus of art history and Armand Hammer Chair in Leonardo Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the author of more than 40 books and 500 essays and articles in various languages, on the many aspects of his specialty.

Chuan-Chiung Chang

Chang Chuan-Chiung (Traditional Chinese: 張傳炯) (born 23 Oct 1928) Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at National Taiwan University.

David L. Downie

Dr. Whitman is the daughter of Marina von Neumann Whitman, the noted economist, and Robert Freeman Whitman, professor emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the granddaughter of John von Neumann, one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century.

De Boor

Carl R. de Boor (born 1937), German-American mathematician and professor emeritus

Donald Peterson

Donald R. Peterson (born 1923), professor emeritus of psychology at Rutgers University

Dowson

Duncan Dowson (born 1928), British engineer and professor emeritus at University of Leeds

Earth Charter

One of the principle creators of the Earth Charter was Steven Clark Rockefeller, who, among other things is professor emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College and an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Emanuel V. Soriano

He was one of the pioneer faculty members of the College of Business Administration, and among the first Filipinos to be sent to the United States for advanced studies in business together with former College of Business Administration deans Jaime C. Laya (who was the 5th governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 1981 to 1984), Magdaleno B. Albarracin, Jr. (now member of the Board of Regents), and Rafael A. Rodriguez (now Professor Emeritus).

Epstein–Barr virus

The Epstein–Barr virus is named after Michael Anthony Epstein, a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London), a 1966 Ph.D graduate from the University of London, who together discovered and documented the virus.

Frank Lambert

Frank L. Lambert (born 1918), professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles

Fritz Joachim Weyl

James Henry Taylor was a mathematics professor at GW from 1929 to 1958 and then professor emeritus until his death in 1972.

George Miley

George H. Miley, physicist, professor emeritus at University of Illinois

H. K. Kesavan

H.K. Kesavan (Hiremagalur Krishnaswamy Kesavan) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

IQ and the Wealth of Nations

IQ and the Wealth of Nations is a 2002 book by Dr. Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.

Jacob Immanuel Schochet

Schochet was professor-emeritus of Philosophy, and Comparative Religion, at Humber College, in Toronto, Canada, and served as adjunct-professor on Jewish Bioethics at University of Toronto Medical School, and professor of Jewish Law and Philosophy, and dean of degree studies at Maimonides College in Toronto.

Jacob Klein

Jacob Klein (Assyriologist) (born 1934), Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and the Bible at Bar-Ilan University and a member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão

He is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University, was dean of the University of Lisbon from 1973 to 1974, and president of the Portuguese Academy of History between 1975 and 2006.

John Joseph Davye

He finished his career as a teacher, composer, director, and festival adjudicator as Professor Emeritus of Music at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

John Lumley

John L. Lumley, Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering

Julian Samora

Samora was the first Mexican American to ever receive a doctorate in sociology; and, by the end of his academic career, he was named Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

Justo L. González

His wife, Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez is also a Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary and author, who he has worked on several books with.

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (born 11 July 1940, in Hütten bei Gellin, Province of Pomerania, Germany (now Sitno, Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) is a Professor Emeritus in public-, and civil law at University of Erlangen" in Nuremberg, Germany.

Laurence H. Snyder

Snyder taught at four academic institutions, all state universities: North Carolina State College (1924-1930) as professor of biology, Ohio State University (1930-1947) as professor of genetics and later chairman of the Department of Zoology and Entomology, the University of Oklahoma (1947-1958) as Dean of the graduate college and professor of medicine, and the University of Hawaii (1958-1963) as President and later professor and professor emeritus.

Luis E. Aguilar Leon

Aguilar’s older brother was Juan F. Aguilar Leon, Professor Emeritus of Drake University School of Law.

M. Qasim Jan

Presently, he is Professor Emeritus in the National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar.

National Center for History in the Schools

More recently, NCHS has developed materials for World History including World History for Us All: The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students with Ross E. Dunn, a professor emeritus and co-Director for World History.

Neo-Gramscianism

The beginning of the Neo-Gramscian perspective can be traced to York University professor emeritus, Robert W. Cox's article "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory", in Millennium 10 (1981) 2, and "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method", published in Millennium 12 (1983) 2.

Ole Holsti

Holsti is the brother of University Killam Professor Emeritus Kal (Kalevi) Holsti and the son of the late Foreign Minister of Finland Rudolf Holsti.

Panofsky Prize

It was established in 1985 by friends of Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, a professor emeritus at Stanford University and by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.

Paul Van Riper

Paul P. Van Riper (born 1916), professor emeritus of political science

Said Awad

Said A. Awad, (Arabic: سعيد عبد الكريم عوض) MD, BCh, FRCS, is Professor Emeritus of Urology at Dalhousie University Medical School, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Schola Antiqua of Chicago

Calvin M. Bower, Professor Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and currently a researcher at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, was the Artistic Director of Schola Antiqua from its inception until 2008.

Sharkansky

Ira Sharkansky, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Smadar Rosensweig

She is the daughter of Rabbi Dr. David Eliach and Dr. Yaffa Eliach, renown Holocaust Scholar and professor emeritus at Brooklyn College.

St. Francis Dam

The Santa Clara River Protective Association employed the geologist and Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Bailey Willis, and eminent San Francisco Civil Engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Carl E. Grunsky.

Stanley Mulaik

Stanley A. Mulaik (born April 9, 1935 in Edinburg, Texas) is Professor Emeritus (retired) at the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as the head of the Societate American pro Interlingua.

Susumu Tachi

Susumu Tachi (born January 1, 1946) is a professor of Graduate School of Media Design at Keio University and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

The Prince's School of Traditional Arts

It was the brainchild of Dr. Keith Critchlow, the Professor Emeritus at the School, who is also the author of several books on Sacred Geometry.

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

Peter Robert Saunders, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Sussex University, published a report for the think tank Policy Exchange questioning the statistics in The Spirit Level.

W. H. Clatworthy

Willard H. Clatworthy,(October 16, 1915 – February 15, 2010) was a professor emeritus from University at Buffalo and a World War II veteran from Williamsville, New York.

Wente

Edward F. Wente (born 1930), American Egyptologist and professor emeritus

Westernization

According to Sammy Smooha, a professor emeritus of sociology at Haifa University, Israel is described as a “hybrid,” a modern and developed “semi-Western” state.

Wye Oak

Dr. Frank Gouin, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, College Park, impressed both by the age and size of the tree, as well as its unusual resistance to oak wilt fungus and the gypsy moth, led a successful effort to clone the Wye Oak.