"the professor, the house blows up, but they all survive. Tintin and Haddock meet the detectives Thomson and Thompson, who reveal that the wounded man at Marlinspike was Syldavian. Tintin surmises that Calculus had invented an ultrasonic device capable of being used as a weapon of mass destruction, which both Syldavian and Bordurian intelligence agents are now seeking to obtain. Discovering that Bordurian spies have kidnapped Calculus and are holding him hostage in their Rolle embassy, Tintin and Haddock seek to rescue him, but during the attempt he is captured by Syldavian agents, who are able to escape by plane"
"Professor Calculus. In line with this change, the phostlite is renamed ""calculite"". Professor Philippulus is Calculus' assistant, and he predicts the end of the world, but his predictions are wrong. Calculus accompanies Tintin on the meteorite, and the ""Peary"" captain and a crewman chase Tintin and Calculus on the meteorite, but are chased off by the giant spider. Captain Chester has been removed from the storyline, and Thomson and Thompson accompany them on the voyage, whereas in the book they only appeared in one panel. In The Secret of the Unicorn, Barnaby and Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine are completely missing from"
"partially deaf physicist and a regular character alongside Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock. He was introduced in ""Red Rackham's Treasure"", and based partially on Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist. The leading characters do not initially welcome his presence, but through his generous nature and his scientific ability, he develops a lasting bond with them. Eventually, by the end of ""Land of Black Gold"", he becomes a resident of Marlinspike Hall. Normally mild-mannered and dignified, Calculus occasionally loses his temper and acts in a spectacularly aggressive manner in response to actual or perceived insults, such as when Captain Haddock belittles his"
"Professor Barabas Professor Barabas (English: Professor Barnabas) is a Flemish comic book character from the ""Suske en Wiske"" series by Willy Vandersteen. He is the absent-minded professor/scientist archetype in the franchise. In the first unofficial ""Suske en Wiske"" story, ""Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije"" (1945), Wiske, Rikki and Tante Sidonia are aided by an absent-minded engineer called Ingenieur Wargaren. Vandersteen never used the character again, but he can be seen as a prototype of Barabas. Professor Barabas made his debut in the next and first official ""Suske en Wiske"" story, ""Het Eiland Amoras"" (""The Isle of Amoras"") (1945). Wiske and"
"hearing in one ear. Calculus first appeared in ""Red Rackham's Treasure"", and was the result of Hergé's long quest to find the archetypal mad scientist or absent-minded professor. Although Hergé had included characters with similar traits in earlier stories, Calculus developed into a much more complex figure as the series progressed. Calculus is a genius, who demonstrates himself throughout the series to be an expert in many fields of science, holding three PhDs in nuclear and theoretical physics, and planetary astronomy. He is also an experienced engineer, archaeologist, biologist and chemist. Many of his inventions precede or mirror similar technological"
"Multo, one of the characters in the children's series ""The Zula Patrol"", is another example of an absent-minded professor. Professor Kokintz in ""The Mouse That Roared"" by Leonard Wibberley is an example from literature. Professor Branestawm, created in the 1930s by Norman Hunter, is an earlier example of the archetype, and Jacques Paganel from the Jules Verne's 1867 novel ""In Search of the Castaways"" is probably the codifier of the archetype in the modern literature. Professor Caractacus Potts in the story of ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" qualifies as an absent-minded inventor. Comic strip examples include Professor Calculus in ""The Adventures"
"Unicorn"" and its sequel, something which he attributed to Van Melkebeke's influence. Peeters believed that ""Red Rackham's Treasure"" was ""an unforgettable book"" because it is the volume in which the ""family""—meaning Tintin, Snowy, Haddock, and Calculus—all come together. Fellow biographer Pierre Assouline echoed this idea, noting that Hergé had ""settled"" the three characters in their new home. Focusing on the character of Calculus, he noted that the idea of the eccentric professor was ""so universal that it would be inaccurate to point to any one source"", suggesting possible influences from Charlie Chaplin and Hergé's own father. For Assouline, the professor"
"intentions. In ""The Calculus Affair"" (1956), Borduria is depicted as a stereotypical Eastern Bloc country with its own secret police (ZEP) (led by Colonel Sponsz) and a military dictator, Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch. A statue of Kûrvi-Tasch appears in front of a government building, in which he wears a moustache similar to Joseph Stalin's and gives a Nazi-like salute. The Bordurian military of this period is depicted as technologically inept—unable to stop a stolen tank commandeered by Tintin and his companions as a result of defective mines and anti-tank guns. Professor Calculus is kidnapped by the Bordurians after developing an ultrasonic weapon"
"find the lost wedding ring of Hergé's wife in October 1939. Before Calculus appeared in ""Red Rackham's Treasure"", Hergé had featured other highly educated but eccentric scholars and scientists, such as the following: Calculus's introduction appears to have supplied Hergé with the bizarre nature he wished to portray in a man of science. Other figures of high education were shown as more stable and level-headed. The members of the archaeological expedition who fall victim to ""The Seven Crystal Balls"" show no apparent signs of eccentricity. The most prominent member of this group is Calculus's friend Hercules Tarragon, with whom he"
"(2009). In the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels the permanent exhibition brings homage to the pioneers of Belgian comics, among them Willy Vandersteen. In the room dedicated to his work a replica of Professor Barabas' teletijdmachine (""tele time machine"") can be seen. Professor Barabas Professor Barabas (English: Professor Barnabas) is a Flemish comic book character from the ""Suske en Wiske"" series by Willy Vandersteen. He is the absent-minded professor/scientist archetype in the franchise. In the first unofficial ""Suske en Wiske"" story, ""Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije"" (1945), Wiske, Rikki and Tante Sidonia are aided by an absent-minded engineer called"
"Professor Hercules Tarragon, who is an old friend and former classmate of Calculus'. Under police guard, Professor Tarragon shows his visitors one of the expedition's discoveries from Peru: the mummified body of Inca king Rascar Capac. That evening, a lightning storm strikes the house and sends ball lightning down the chimney and onto the mummy—which evaporates. Worried, Tarragon states that this reflects the culmination of Capac's prophecy, which declares that punishment will descend upon those who desecrate his tomb. Spending the stormy night at Tarragon's house, Tintin, Haddock, and Calculus are each awoken by a dream involving Capac's mummy. They"
"Calculus Case (The Calculus Affair) was the most altered series, the changes amounting to a completely different story altogether. Jolyon Wagg was entirely removed, and Calculus' ultrasound weapon is called ""Silly the Silent"" (or ""No-Sound Nellie"" in the US English version). Thomson and Thompson's roles have been expanded, and Haddock is captured with Calculus in ""Darkol Prison"". Alfredo Topolino and Colonel Sponsz have been renamed ""Professor Bretzel"" and ""Colonel Brutel"". More generally, Tintin's home is located in New York, Captain Haddock does not have a penchant for whiskey (and prefers drinking coffee instead), Professor Calculus does not have hearing problems,"
"expert Michael Farr related, whereas ""Cigars of the Pharaoh"" and ""The Blue Lotus"" had been largely ""self-sufficient and self-contained"", the connection between ""The Secret of the Unicorn"" and ""Red Rackham's Treasure"" is far closer. ""Red Rackham's Treasure"" introduced Professor Cuthbert Calculus to ""The Adventures of Tintin"", who became a recurring character. Hergé had made use of various eccentric professors in earlier volumes of the series, such as Sophocles Sarcophagus in ""Cigars of the Pharaoh"", Hector Alembick in ""King Ottokar's Sceptre"", and Decimus Phostle in ""The Shooting Star"", all of whom prefigure the arrival of Calculus. The character's deafness had been"
"his Uncle Anatole, who was a barber. Jolyon Wagg is based on a salesman who came to Hergé's door and invited himself in, but also on a stereotype of what Hergé called a ""belgicain"", a petty-minded Belgian lacking self-awareness. Wagg appears late in the series, starting with ""The Calculus Affair"", where his self-importance and insensitivity enrage Captain Haddock. Wagg also appears in ""The Red Sea Sharks"", ""The Castafiore Emerald"", ""Flight 714 to Sydney"" and ""Tintin and the Picaros"". Wagg appears four times in ""The Calculus Affair"": inviting himself inside Marlinspike Hall, interfering with a critical radio transmission (Haddock was attempting"
"The Absent-Minded Professor The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American comic science fiction family film produced by Walt Disney Productions based on the short story ""A Situation of Gravity"" by Samuel W. Taylor. The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton University, who was known as ""Dr. Boom"" for his explosive demonstrations. The film stars Fred MacMurray as Professor Ned Brainard. The film was a huge success at the box-office, and two years later became the first Disney film to have a sequel, 1963's ""Son of Flubber"". The original 1961 film"
"objects. Later, over dinner, Thompson and Thomson explain that they are Calculus' bodyguards as they suspect that a criminal organization specializing in making art forgeries wants to steal his machine. Eventually, everybody goes to bed. In the middle of the night, Snowy wakes up Tintin at one point after hearing a noise outside, but Tintin shakes it off as bird calls. In fact, the noise is made by Calculus' housekeeper, Madame Black, who is in league with ""Mr. Big"" as well. Next morning, while Tintin explores the local country with Niko and Nouchka (unaware that there are cameras spying on"
"gets him into trouble in ""The Calculus Affair""). His lab is also stripped of all its apparatus in the same book. On an earlier occasion, during his efforts to find an antidote to Formula Fourteen in ""Land of Black Gold"", Calculus almost destroyed half of Marlinspike in an explosion. Although generally a mild-mannered (if somewhat oblivious) figure, Calculus flies into an uncharacteristic rage if he feels insulted or ridiculed. He is especially provoked if he ever hears Haddock (or anyone else) call him a ""goat"". On one famous occasion in ""Destination Moon"", he displays uncontrollable ire (""Goat, am I?"") when"
"inspired by a colleague whom Hergé had worked with years earlier at ""Le Vingtième Siècle"". Visually, Calculus was based on a real scientist, the Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard, who had been the first man to explore the stratosphere in a hot air balloon in 1931. Hergé had observed Piccard walking about Brussels on a number of occasions, however the character of Calculus would be notably much shorter than Piccard. Hergé named this character Tryphon Tournesol; while the surname meant ""sunflower"", the forename was adopted from a carpenter named Tryphon Beckaert whom Hergé had encountered in Boitsfort. Tryphon Tournesol was later"
"construction tycoon Laszlo Carreidas - ""the millionaire who never laughs"", who offers Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus his personal jet, the Carreidas 160, to travel to Sydney. Marcel Dassault Marcel Dassault (born Marcel Bloch; 22 January 1892 – 17 April 1986) was a French industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. Bloch was born on 22 January 1892 in Paris. Both of his parents were Jewish. He was educated at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. After studies in Electrical Engineering he graduated from the Breguet School and Supaéro. At the latter school Bloch was classmates with a Russian"
"Charlie Eppes Prof. Charles Edward Eppes, Ph.D., is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of the CBS crime drama ""Numb3rs"". He is portrayed by David Krumholtz. Dr. Charles Eppes is portrayed as a young mathematical genius and professor of applied mathematics at the fictional ""California Institute of Science"", ""CalSci"" (primarily based on Caltech, where some filming and mathematics consulting is done). As a world-class mathematician, Charlie helps his brother Don Eppes solve many of his perplexing FBI cases, sometimes with the help of his best friend, mentor and colleague Larry Fleinhardt and his on-again off-again girlfriend, former student"
"arrive in Callao, Peru. There, they plan to intercept the arrival of the ""Pachacamac"", a ship carrying their friend Professor Calculus, who is being held by kidnappers. Tintin boards the ship and learns from Chiquito, the former assistant of General Alcazar and one of the abductors, that Calculus is to be executed for wearing a bracelet belonging to the mummified Incan king Rascar Capac. Tintin barely escapes the ship with his life, and he and Haddock alert the authorities; but the abductors evade the police and take Calculus to the Andes mountains. Tintin and Haddock pursue them to the mountain"
"their academic studies. William Archibald Spooner, who gave his name to the spoonerism, was known for his absent-mindedness and eccentricity. ""Doc"" Emmett Brown from ""Back to the Future"" is an example of an absent-minded professor in film. Another example is the title character in the film ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" and its less successful film remakes, all based on the short story ""A Situation of Gravity"" by Samuel W. Taylor. Examples in television include Professor Farnsworth in ""Futurama"", Professor Frink in ""The Simpsons"", Walter Bishop in the Fox television series ""Fringe"", and Professor Von Schlemmer in ""Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog""."
"of ""The Calculus Affair"". With Pablo's assistance, Tintin, Snowy, Haddock, and Calculus escape from their guards and seek refuge with General Alcazar and his small band of anti-Tapioca guerrillas, the Picaros, who are hiding in the San Theodoran jungle. After realising that Pablo is a double agent working for Tapioca, they escape an attempt on their lives and then shelter for a time with the Arumbaya, an indigenous community who live within the forest. Here, Tintin is reunited with his old acquaintance, the explorer Ridgewell, who is living with the Arumbaya. Leaving the Arumbaya settlement, they eventually arrive at the"
"both stories, the competing expedition teams were led by an eccentric professor and a Jewish banker, and Verne's novel had a Doktor Schultze to Hergé's Professor Schulze—both from the University of Jena. Hergé denied deliberately copying Verne's story, saying that he had only read one of the French novelist's works; it is possible that the influence from Verne came via Jacques Van Melkebeke, Hergé's friend and assistant, who was a fan of the genre. The Swedish expedition member Eric Björgenskjöld physically resembles a real person: Auguste Piccard, who later became Hergé's inspiration for Professor Calculus. Under Nazi control, ""Le Soir"""
"is a stock character often depicted in fictional works, usually as a talented academic whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings. This stereotypical view can be traced back as far as the philosopher Thales, who it is said, ""walked at night with his eyes focused on the heavens and, as a result, fell down a well"". One classic example of this is in the Disney film ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" made in 1963 and based on the short story ""A Situation of Gravity,"" by Samuel W. Taylor. Two examples of this character portrayed in more"
"that the character was not Jewish. A fourth recurring character introduced in this story was the Portuguese merchant Oliveira da Figueira, who would reappear in both the subsequent ""Adventures"" set in the Middle East, ""Land of Black Gold"" and ""The Red Sea Sharks"". One of the core characters of the story was Sophocles Sarcophagus, an Egyptologist who is the stereotype of an eccentric professor. In this respect, he is a prototype for the character of Cuthbert Calculus, whom Hergé would introduce later in ""Red Rackham's Treasure"". It was during the serialisation of ""Cigars"" that Wallez was embroiled in a scandal"
"Professor Thorton Professor Andre Thorton (real name Truett Hudson; also known as The Professor) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an enemy of Wolverine and had a hand in his origin. Professor Thorton first appeared in ""Marvel Comics Presents"" #73 and was created by Barry Windsor-Smith. In 1972, nearly twenty years before Logan was romantically involved and abducted with Silver Fox at Windsor snow lodge, Professor Thorton experimented on numerous mutants including Sabretooth and Mastodon. He hired Carol Hines as his assistant and the scientist Abraham Cornelius. His experiments on Wolverine"
"Professor Farnsworth Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply Professor, is a fictional character in the American animated television series ""Futurama"". Farnsworth is the mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service, for whom the main characters work. He is the great (×30) nephew of Philip J. Fry, the series' protagonist. He alternates between intelligence and amoral senility due to his greatly advanced age. He demonstrates a mastery of any field of science necessary for the series' plots, and is suggested to be one of the most brilliant inventors on Earth. However, he falls asleep constantly, and he is implied"
"Professor Genius Professor Genius is an American comics character, who originated in the comic strip ""Little Nemo in Slumberland"" by Winsor McCay and other subsequent media. He is the right-hand man to King Morpheus, the ruler of Slumberland. His main jobs are to look after the Princess, Little Nemo, and of course make sure the King's things are in order. In the original ""Little Nemo"" comics, musical and vaudeville, Professor Genius appeared with a different personality and appearance as ""Dr. Pill."" In the 1992 movie ""Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland"", Professor Genius is given the task of bringing Little Nemo"
"The Nutty Professor (character) The Nutty Professor (known as Julius E. Kelp in the original film (1963) and as Prof. Sherman Klump in the 1996 remake, and by his alter ego Buddy Love) is a fictional character portrayed by Jerry Lewis in ""The Nutty Professor"" and its respective sequel, and by Eddie Murphy in the 1996 version and its 2000 sequel """". Julius E. Kelp is an awkward and shy but intelligent and lively chemist professor. Sherman Klump is a jolly, kind-hearted science teacher at Welman College. Murphy also played the rest of Klump's family in the sequel. Lewis was"
"volume, ""Explorers on the Moon"", ""The Calculus Affair"" was created with the aid of the Hergé's team of artists at Studios Hergé. The story reflected the Cold War tensions that Europe was experiencing during the 1950s, and introduced three recurring characters into the series: Jolyon Wagg, Cutts the Butcher, and Colonel Sponsz. Hergé continued ""The Adventures of Tintin"" with ""The Red Sea Sharks"", and the series as a whole became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. ""The Calculus Affair"" was critically well-received, with various commentators having described it as one of the best Tintin adventures. The story was"
"presented onstage during the Restoration. The play satirizes the college recorder, Francis Brackyn, a ""constant adversary of the university"" who is represented as the Ignoramus of the title. Brackyn was unpopular among the academics of the town as a ""common lawyer"" (they used a crude ""law Latin"" that the academics deplored); he had previously been ridiculed in the third of the Parnassus plays. In ""Ignoramus"", Brackyn is given a romance of false loves; he is enamored of Rosabella and pays 600 gold pieces for her hand in marriage, but is tricked into being with the mannish Polla. Like Malvolio, who"
"Charlie-visions, such as the ash yellow color that appears on-screen when Charlie suddenly becomes inspired. Charlie Eppes Prof. Charles Edward Eppes, Ph.D., is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of the CBS crime drama ""Numb3rs"". He is portrayed by David Krumholtz. Dr. Charles Eppes is portrayed as a young mathematical genius and professor of applied mathematics at the fictional ""California Institute of Science"", ""CalSci"" (primarily based on Caltech, where some filming and mathematics consulting is done). As a world-class mathematician, Charlie helps his brother Don Eppes solve many of his perplexing FBI cases, sometimes with the help of"