[Closed] Who's your favourite celebrity professor?

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Heinz Wolff off of Gladiators (I think)
Stephen Hawking

but my fave, Hans Rosling

Slightly off topic...
I turned over to 'Wonders of the the universe' last night, with the afore mentioned Brian Cox, and my son went mental....saying "I dont want to watch him, I dont like him". When questioned as to why he disliked the good professer so much, he replied "He said that earth would not exist in X billion years".....Bless 🙂

DezB, is that Magnus?

Hans Rosling... (quick wikipedia)... Joy of Stats, wish I'd seen that!

j_me, thanks for bringing some chilled out vibes to the thread, enjoyed that.

[i]DezB, is that Magnus?[/i]

Yep, the late great Dr. Magnus Pyke

I get a 403 on that link DezB

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+1 for Professor Jim Al-Khalili

Dr Magnus Pyke... was he actually a professor...?

hes not a professor but he should be.

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and these obviously Dumbledor and Snape!!
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+1 for Organic355
Someone has to make him an honourary professor the man's a Legend

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Heinz Wolfe is great

I also like Simon Schama's stuff too and Bettany Hughes

I'm doubtful of the professional qualification of some of these professors!

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Magnus, for those who couldn't see the first pic.

Not a professor?? How dare you!

Can't see how Dumbledore and Snape are professors, they aren't even affiliated to a University

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Dawkins

Doh how could I forget about Darwin's rottweiler! The root of all evil was brilliant.

Laurie Taylor

Martin Rees. I'd read some of his books before, but I heard him giving a talk on the radio a while ago and was blown away by the lucid yet phenomenally intelligent things he said. Top bloke. Would really love to meet him.

Laurent Fignon, RIP.

Brian Cox. [advisory: video contains swearing]

+1 for Fignon. Was never a fan at the time but read his book recently and completely changed my mind. A sad loss.

Markie, got the man flu and that clip made me cough up a big green phlegm. Brilliant!

Professor Jim Al-Khalili

his show on chaos theory was superb. can't believe i was a couple of hundred metres away from him for 3 years at Uni and didn't realise.

Did like the ones he did on the atom and chemistry too. Did he ever do a series on famous mathematicians or was that someone else?

Marcus du Sautoy.

Check out the "History of Mathematics" podcasts on the BBC website.

Also Finding Moonshine and the Music of the Primes for two great books on number theories and other mathematical beauty.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_du_Sautoy

Don't have to be affiliated with a university to be a prof.

Stoner... thanks, downloading now 😀

He keeps it more anthropological than mathematical but they still make interesting little podcasts about the charcaters involved and [i]some detail[/i] of their theories.

+1 for Marcus du Sautoy

Professor Muddles

and once youve gon through Sautoy's stuff there's:

Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
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Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
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http://www.simonsingh.net/Books.html

Why Do Buses Come in Threes?: The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

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How Long Is a Piece of String?: More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life
Rob Eastaway

Professor Muddles

Is he really your favourite professor...? 😯

A [url= http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?videoid?44930749001 ]great lecture on dark energy and the end of the universe by Lawrence Krauss[/url], an excellent speaker IMO...

Reference podcasts, I enjoy those of [url= http://www.slackerastronomy.org/category/audio-podcasts/ ]slacker astronomy[/url].

you pretentious ****ers 😉 would all probably enjoy the Little Atoms podcast from Resonance FM. iTunes has it.

Brian Cox obviously 🙂

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Got to be Farnsworth