FN: a university academic (in BrE: of the highest rank)One of the major accounts of the Renaissance in Italy was published in 1860 by a Swiss history professor at Basel University . Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . According to Edward Altman , a finance professor at New York University , there are also indirect costs : some customers choose not to deal with vulnerable firms , and suppliers demand better terms . With various mathematical refinements , it was this method that Galileo , one-time professor at Padua , used in studying the motion of falling bodies . JENNY HEAD , 37 , is a part-time shiatsu [ massage ] therapist and her husband , Mike Fourman , 42 , a computer science professor at Edinburgh University . The teaching staff consists of academic personnel from NSM and professors from the University of Oslo , the University of California at Berkely and the University of Pennsylvania . It was given by a professor from Cambridge , Christopher Ricks , and it was a very shiny performance . Professors from universities over there are on a recruiting drive over here . His successor is a law professor from Australia . There he was helped by Jean Schneider , later a professor in the medical faculty at Paris . Only the professor in a hospital department is allowed to do private practice and this must be done on the hospital premises . The first subject , J.A.G. , is a young man of 28 years , assistant professor in the University . This was a natural choice because the writer of the television serial , and of the novel upon which it is based , is David Lodge , until recently a Professor in the School of English . GuzmýNN1-NP0 , or " Chairman Gonzalo " , a former philosophy professor in Ayacucho , was regarded by his followers in Sendero Luminoso as the fourth sword of the world revolution after Marx , Lenin and Mao Zedong . Just because he is a professor of medicine at Cambridge does not make his findings unquestionable . Anthony King is Professor of Government at Essex University . A professor of medicine , visiting a medical school in Texas , asked the resident physician how many of his patients practised the habit of downing mud . I 'm now a professor of mathematics , but I have not had any formal instruction in mathematics since I left St. Albans school at the age of seventeen . He 's a professor of English . The students -- and their professors -- beat a path to his door . I had permission -- from my professor . " I saw only her and my professor . Suzanne did well and felt that all but one of her professors were very encouraging . ` Girls at school used to say their Professor could fix anything . The narrator , Richard Papen , longs for entry to the college 's charmed but destructive inner circle -- a clique of privileged students fired by their classics professor 's admiration for the ancient Greek mysteries of bucolic visions and violence . The Garden , under its Director Professor D.S. Ingram , specialises in taxonomic botany , which serves as a backbone to studies of biodiversity , biotechnology , and applied botanical research , as well as to plant physiology , genetics and many other plant-based sciences . It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ` Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you " . His agents leaned on lowly college professors to stay away from groups Hoover did n't like ; otherwise their files went to their colleges , full of raw gossip . Was she really a college professor ? " Dr Eduardo UmaFýP0 Mendoza , law professor and human rights lawyer , has been repeatedly threatened with death over a number of months , apparently as a result of his activities in defence of human rights . ( At the time , Noam Chomsky , the anti-Establishment linguistics professor , was a prominent critic of US intervention in Vietnam . Their parents are philosophy professors and learning-disabilities therapists and guidance counsellors and physical therapists . Finally in October a new stage was reached in the Group 's exchange programme with Jiao Tong University , Shanghai by receiving Professors Ye Dun-ping and Wang Qin-he of the Department of Social Science and Social Engineering . And Ramsey was elected the Cambridge regius professor by the votes of five men out of seven . In Moscow Mr Yavlinsky met Jeffrey Sachs and Graham Allison , two Harvard professors with close links to the administration . It was not yet known what had brought the Professor to the city …CCK was measured by a specific radioimmunoassay based on antiserum A 2 , raised by immunising a rabbit with natural porcine CCK-33 ( donated by Professors V Mutt and S R Bloom ) . That was after he accused Berkeley 's Philosophy Professor of having ` idiotic " notions during a long debate on whether computers will ` think " like people in three centuries hence . The very next day he was upbraided by the professor for giggling out loud in Gross Anatomy : Rolf and Rudolph were making jokes about the new female corpse . In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years . ` If it goes up , Jim , " said the Professor without looking round , ` it will take most of Brentford with it . Some of the other students also knew Ellis slightly : he had been seen on several demonstrations , and they had assumed he was a graduate student or a young professor . Then to the horror of the students the professor dipped his finger into the samples one by one and they saw him put it to his lips . Striding towards him was the professor . He is a Professor , I see from the biography inside , and the E stands for Edward . He returned to England to gain his doctorate from London University , and from 1923 to 1935 he was Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of British Columbia . Michael Persinger , associate professor of psychology at Laurentian University in Ontario , has proposed that some UAPs are a consequence of the piezo-electric effect . Sir George Porter , of the Royal Institution in London , and George Pimentel , then associate professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley , began work on exploiting matrix isolation in 1954 . I participated in a national competition called to fill eight positions of associate professor in gastroenterology . She retired in 1987 from her appointment as Associate Professor in Child Therapy at Case Western Reserve University . One dissenting voice is that of Mr Alfred Chandler , emeritus professor of business history at Harvard Business School . It was lucky that Professor St John Goth , Nottingham University 's emeritus medieval history professor , could always be relied on . He received an honorary LLD at Birmingham and St Andrews ; on retirement in 1935 he was made emeritus professor at Manchester . PROFESSOR George Lightbody Montgomery , emeritus professor of pathology in the University of Edinburgh , died in Edinburgh on 5 February , aged 87 . ` When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , " said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . This year , the centenary of the birth of Erwin Panofsky , researchers have once again gathered in Hamburg to discuss the life and work of the University 's former Professor of Art History . Many university professors were paid less than labourers in the eighteenth century ; if not clerics , they were forced , as were academics throughout the nineteenth century , to seek outside work to gain a living . Under the provisions of the university decree governing the post , the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography is required ` to lecture and give instruction in Geography " . In 2002 , AKU and Damascus University signed a mutual scientific cooperation agreement that called for broadened scientific , educational , and research cooperation between the universities , the exchange of professors and students , the organization of scientific seminars and educational courses , and the formation of a joint working committee to probe into the inauguration of a branch of Amir Kabir University in Syria .Annabelle Irwin , a retired Iowa State English professor who drew on her experience as a high school teacher in collaborating on an acclaimed series of books for young teen-agers , died Sept. 13 at a daughter 's home in Des Moines , Iowa .