Then in 1990 a 27-year-old professor of Marxism named Zorig led a peaceful uprising that introduced democracy and capitalism.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening.

Radio transmissions at the university date to 1912, when a professor named F. W. Springer began experimenting with broadcasts, though he probably just used a spark gap transmitter.

Professor Hex: A brilliant, world-traveling professor of entomology named John Erikson who first appears in "The Empty Box".

A young professor from Cornell named Peter Ward.

When the Spanish ambassador asked Linnaeus to select a botanist for service in the American colonies, the professor at once named Loefling.

Umberto is played by a nonprofessional actor, a professor from Florence named Carlo Battisti whom, legend has it, De Sica stopped one day on the street.

At Oral Roberts, Bachmann worked for a professor named John Eidsmoe, who got her interested in the burgeoning homeschool movement.

Another pathologist presided, an associate professor named Barnard Singh, bright and turbaned and dressed in a perfect gray suit.

The professor named the community in reference to the series of cascades in a nearby creek.