A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank. In many English-speaking nations, such as the United Kingdom, professor is reserved only for senior academics holding a departmental chair (especially head of the department) at a university, or an awarded chair specifically bestowed recognizing an individual at a university. In the United States and Canada the title of professor is granted to larger groups of senior teachers in two- and four-year colleges and universities. In countries on the European mainland, such as France, Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries, usage of professor as a legal title is limited much the same way as in most Commonwealth countries, that is, it is reserved for someone who holds a chair. But in the United States, while "Professor" as a proper noun (with...

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Employees and other personnel: Yale University; 
People With This Title: James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University; Thomas Addis - Stanford University; Jon Bridgman - University of Washington; Argye Hillis-Trupe - Johns Hopkins University; David Hillis - University of Texas at Austin; Jacob Wolfowitz - Cornell University - 1951 - 1970; Jacob Wolfowitz - University of South Florida St. Petersburg; Jon Kleinberg - Cornell University; Edward Tufte - Yale University; John Tufts - Western Connecticut State University; 
People with this title: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft - 2004; Dieter Rink - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ - 2004; Nigel Shadbolt - University of Southampton; Nick Jennings - University of Southampton; Bjorn Poonen - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2008; Bjorn Poonen - University of California, Berkeley - 2004 - 2008; Marco Casagrande - Tamkang University; Marshall Hall - Ohio State University - 1948 - 1959; Marshall Hall - California Institute of Technology - 1959 - 1981; George Pólya - ETH Zurich - 1914 - 1940; 
Characters With This Occupation: Indiana Jones  Robert Stadler  Passenger Number 3 Character in Atlas Shrugged  Gammel Dore  Sandy Cohen  Nick Cutter  Lauren Davis  Ronnie Cooke  Marla Hendricks  Marilyn Sudor  
Fictional characters with this job: Scarecrow - Gotham University; Robert Stadler - Patrick Henry University; Professor Dave Jennings - Faber College; 
People With This Profession: John Tufts  Umberto Eco  Paul Klee  Jonathan Kellerman  Richard Smalley  Albert Sacco  Daniel T. Barry  James A. Pawelczyk  Ebba Witt-Brattström  Hans Albert Einstein  
Specialization Of: Educator  
Specializations: Distinguished Professor  
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