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Absent-minded professor
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The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction, usually portrayed as a talented scholar whose academic brilliance is accompanied by below-par functioning in other areas, leading t
Per Lindroth [sv], 1929, Den tankspridde professorn (The Absent-minded Professor)
Per Lindroth [sv], 1929, Den tankspridde professorn (The Absent-minded Professor)
"The Astrologer who Fell into a Well" – John Tenniel's illustration from an 1884 edition of Aesop's fables, based on a story about Thales of Miletus
"The Astrologer who Fell into a Well" – John Tenniel's illustration from an 1884 edition of Aesop's fables, based on a story about Thales of Miletus
Mad scientist
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The mad scientist, also known as the mad doctor or mad professor, is a stock character of a scientist who has unusual or unsettling personality traits, usually in the taboo or hubristic nature of thei
Absent-minded professor
…that professors get so obsessed with their research that they pay little attention to anything else. The archetype is sometimes mixed with that of the mad scientist, often for comic effect, as in the Jerry Lewis film The Nutty Professor or the Professor Bacterio in the Mortadelo y Filemón comics and movies. However…
Rotwang in Metropolis (1927)
Rotwang in Metropolis (1927)
Horace B. Carpenter as Dr. Meirschultz trying to revive the dead in Maniac (1934)
Horace B. Carpenter as Dr. Meirschultz trying to revive the dead in Maniac (1934)
Bela Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers, the mad scientist in The Devil Bat (1940).
Bela Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers, the mad scientist in The Devil Bat (1940).