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• Robert Park acted simultaneously as a professor, a college football coach, and a minister?
• Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States?
• Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
• William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?
• although Frede Castberg retired as a professor of jurisprudence at the age of seventy, he continued to preside over the Hague Academy of International Law for thirteen years?
• the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi was offered professorship for his painting Christ in the Desert, but rejected it?
• the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama, a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory?
• leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years?
• in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe?
• Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
• Guri Hjeltnes, though a professor of journalism, has mainly concentrated on Norwegian World War II history during her academic career?
• labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand?
• Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki, one of the earliest wiki engines?
• Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor, financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
• astronomy professor Jens Fredrik Schroeter first learned his subject during childhood when his father, a sea captain, taught him how to use the sextant?
• Macquarie University made its site's architect, Walter Abraham, a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
• Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics?
• Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?
• Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there?
• Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
• professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
• Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine?