Project Professor-Professor

Filed under:Sheer Cleverness — posted by squires on 12/8/2005 @ 11:32 am

This is too good to pass up, from December’s mini-AIR newsletter of the Annals of Improbable Research:

Today marks the beginning of a new undertaking: Project Professor-Professor.

Project Professor Professor is a prodigious international effort to identify and list all active research professors whose first and last names are identical.

The first two professors celebrated by Project Professor-Professor are Abraham Abraham and Warren Warren. Behold a few details.

ABRAHAM ABRAHAM
Associate Professor, College of Industrial Management at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Abraham Abraham co-authored the popular paper “The Individual Investor and the Weekend Effect.”

WARREN WARREN
Professor of Chemistry, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging at Duke University. Warren Warren wrote the popular book “The Physical Basis of Chemistry.”

If you know of other professors who should be part of this listing, please send pertinent info (including a URL, if possible) to:
PROJECT PROFESSOR-PROFESSOR
c/o

I don’t know any Professor-Professors, but I sure wish I did. Do you? Send ‘em in.

4 comments »

  1. I had a great professor at Virginia Tech named Rich Rich. “Richard,” of course, is his full first name, but that’s not as convenient a story.

    Comment by Waldo Jaquith — 12/8/2005 @ 7:34 pm

  2. Not quite as good, but I had a professor named Dandeson Panda.

    Comment by Eloise — 12/9/2005 @ 1:10 pm

  3. Another not-quite doublet–a very well-known historian, PRof. David Brion Davis. But he seems always to be referred to by all three names. The “Brion” is correct, by the way.

    Comment by David Fried — 12/21/2005 @ 6:32 pm

  4. LINKS….

    I don’t usually post random collections of links, but they’re piling up and I’m afraid of losing them, so here you go: Project Professor Professor “is a prodigious international effort to identify and list all active research professors whose first…

    Trackback by languagehat.com — 8/17/2006 @ 4:13 pm

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