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Westerberg
Westerberg Posts: 652
edited March 2010 in The bottom bracket
I'll get the ball rolling with Professor Leonid Hurwicz

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Emeritus Professor of Economics

Professorly Aura: 3
Appalling Jacket/Jumper factor: 7
Craziness of hair: 8
Bizarreness of field of expertise: 5
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited March 2010
    Prof. Heather Sealy Lewis Of Kingston Upon Hull (My old Molecular Genetics lecturer and tutor)

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    Professorly Aura - 5 (I'm sure Fungus genes are her one true friend)
    Appaling Jacket/Jumper factor: 3 (Very non-descript)
    Craziness of hair - 7 - crimpage delight
    Bizarreness of field of expertise - 8
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    How does this work, Westerberg? And who is Tom Trumps? :wink:
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
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    Although my old Evolutionary Biology lecturer may win on hair craziness alone!!
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    Crapaud wrote:
    How does this work, Westerberg? And who is Tom Trumps? :wink:
    same rules as Numberwang.
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Prof. Heather Sealy Lewis Of Kingston Upon Hull (My old Molecular Genetics lecturer and tutor)

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    Professorly Aura - 5 (I'm sure Fungus genes are her one true friend)
    Appaling Jacket/Jumper factor: 5 (Very non-descript)
    Craziness of hair - 7 - crimpage delight
    Bizarreness of field of expertise - 8

    Nice snap. Less attention to hair is a plus - shows they're too absorbed in their subject matter to give a f***.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Crapaud wrote:
    How does this work, Westerberg? And who is Tom Trumps? :wink:

    Obviously not his old English prof! :lol:
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    The ultimate mad professor must be Lev Landau:

    "During 1932 - 1937 he was head of the Theoretical Department of the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute at Kharkov, and since 1937 he [was] the head of the Theoretical Department of the Institute for Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow".

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    In his biography there's a really mad photo of him in some sort of ethnic apparel.
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    Oh, I could show you a few! Sadly for the forum, however, many of them are my clients and I'll never be able to afford to tour the Alps again, if I p1ss off the hand that feeds.

    I will share something that the editor of the trade magazine for Universities (THE) once told me:

    Universities are like menageries: they exist to protect rare species that would be unable to survive in the outside world.

    and something that a Professor once told me:

    Have you ever noticed the similarity between Universities and Lunatic Asylums (Asyla?): large Victorian buildings in parkland on the edge of cities where society places people it does not know what to do with?

    Oh, Lord, I can feel my career ebbing away! :D

    Fast and Bulbous
    Peregrinations
    Eddingtons: 80 (Metric); 60 (Imperial)
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Westerberg wrote:
    I'll get the ball rolling with Professor Leonid Hurwicz

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    Emeritus Professor of Economics

    Professorly Aura: 3
    Appalling Jacket/Jumper factor: 7
    Craziness of hair: 8
    Bizarreness of field of expertise: 5

    Shouldn't there be bonus points for pens in shirt pockets?
    Looking for a cycling buddy?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Colin Price from Bangor Uni would be my choice. Top man...

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    Prof of Forestry and Environmental Economics

    Professorly Aura: 2
    Appalling Jacket/Jumper factor: 8 - known to wear several jumpers at once, which are removed to reveal appalling shades of greeny blue to describe the appearance of different species of conifer in the landscape
    Craziness of hair: 6
    Bizarreness of field of expertise: 7 (+1 bonus point for the use of fuzzy logic)
  • blackhands
    blackhands Posts: 950
    Westerberg wrote:
    I'll get the ball rolling with Professor Leonid Hurwicz

    professor-leonid-hu_682540c.jpg

    Emeritus Professor of Economics

    Professorly Aura: 3
    Appalling Jacket/Jumper factor: 7
    Craziness of hair: 8
    Bizarreness of field of expertise: 5

    Why is Economics bizzare? can't disagree with the other scores though.
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    The greatest professors ever

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2un9rO2ZF4g
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

    FCN = 3 - 5
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Martyn Poliakoff, Nottingham, Chemistry

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    Le Blaireau (1)
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Prof Heinze Wolf, Professor of eggs and general boffinry.

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    Professorly Aura - 7, Van Helsingish, but eccentric
    Appaling Jacket/Jumper factor: 6, aged jacket (inc bonus point for bowtie)
    Craziness of hair - 7, bonkers
    Bizarreness of field of expertise - 8, self powered egg transportation
    Special power - 7, can fart out of his index finger
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    blackhands wrote:
    Westerberg wrote:
    I'll get the ball rolling with Professor Leonid Hurwicz

    professor-leonid-hu_682540c.jpg

    Emeritus Professor of Economics

    Professorly Aura: 3
    Appalling Jacket/Jumper factor: 7
    Craziness of hair: 8
    Bizarreness of field of expertise: 5

    Why is Economics bizzare? can't disagree with the other scores though.

    Take a look at the gov't intervention thread
    _
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    J.C. Smith was the greatest man to lecture me at Nottingham.

    He did write THE book... on crime.

    Can't find a photo but he used to amble about in an old duffle coat. He used to have to stop talking to you as one of the House of Lords rang him toask for advice. Like he was a mate next door.

    His brain power trumps the lot of ya.

    Otherwise, in the spirit of the thread

    Denzil Dexter

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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Nice to see Prof Wolf there. Shame these guys are ineligible...

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  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    "Bizarreness of field of expertise" - needs re-wording. Any suggestions? Is Arcaneness a word?? Esotericness?
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Westerberg wrote:
    "Bizarreness of field of expertise" - needs re-wording. Any suggestions? Is Arcaneness a word?? Esotericness?
    Eccentricity quotient?
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    edited March 2010
    Professor Voker Heine - Clare College : Cambridge
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    Theoretical physics of materials at the atomic level, including a lot of computer simulation to investigate structures, properties and processes. Areas of application includes minerals (rocks), metals and alloys, and surfaces of solids. The computer simulations have to solve the full quantum mechanics of the atomic electrons to describe the bonds between the atoms, and how bonds are broken and new ones formed during some process.

    Professorly Aura: 7
    Appalling Jacket/Jumper factor: 7*
    Craziness of hair: 3
    Bizarreness of field of expertise: 9

    * + bonus points for combining jesus sandals with a cape and shorts! :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    Crapaud wrote:
    Westerberg wrote:
    "Bizarreness of field of expertise" - needs re-wording. Any suggestions? Is Arcaneness a word?? Esotericness?
    Eccentricity quotient?
    excellent suggestion!
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    DaveyL wrote:
    Martyn Poliakoff, Nottingham, Chemistry

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    effortlessly professorial.

    +++ for the hair.
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
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    Prof John Henderson, Prof.of Classics, Cambridge.
  • the_woodshed11
    the_woodshed11 Posts: 716
    edited February 2016
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    Oh, plenty and plenty of hake there was
    Of a glory beyond compare,
    And every conceivable make there was
    Was tossed through the lilac air.</h6>
  • the_woodshed11
    the_woodshed11 Posts: 716
    edited February 2016
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    <h6>
    Oh, plenty and plenty of hake there was
    Of a glory beyond compare,
    And every conceivable make there was
    Was tossed through the lilac air.</h6>
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
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    Professor of Law, Dr Gary Slapper. :D
  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    The wonderful and genuinely inspiring Prof Victor Klemperer

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    Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 3000
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    NapoleonD wrote:

    Although my old Evolutionary Biology lecturer may win on hair craziness alone!!

    Evolutionary Biology? Much call for that in the polis?
    -Spider-
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    -spider- wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:

    Although my old Evolutionary Biology lecturer may win on hair craziness alone!!

    Evolutionary Biology? Much call for that in the polis?

    It's a must for dealing with angry creationists :wink:
    _
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    -spider- wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:

    Although my old Evolutionary Biology lecturer may win on hair craziness alone!!

    Evolutionary Biology? Much call for that in the polis?
    Pop into any city centre on a Saturday night and watch the Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals at play. :wink:
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill

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