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Professor (Money Heist)
The Professor (El Profesor), real name Sergio Marquina, alias Salva, is the mastermind of Money Heist (La casa de papel), played by Álvaro Morte; he planned the Royal Mint and Bank of Spain heists and now leads the franchise's expansion.
Professor (musician)
Professor, born Mkhonzeni Langa in 1978, is a South African kwaito singer and songwriter whose 2010 debut album University of Kalawa Jazmee produced the hit "Jezebel".
Professor Bazima scientific park
Professor Bazima scientific park (پارک علمی پروفسور بازیما) is an indoor themed science park in Mashhad, Iran, opened in spring 2016, said to be the first in Iran.
Professor Calculus
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) is the deaf, absent-minded inventor in Hergé's Tintin comics, debuting in Red Rackham's Treasure and modeled on Auguste Piccard and Paul Eydt.
Professor Dowell's Head
Professor Dowell's Head (Голова профессора Доуэля) is a science fiction work by Soviet writer Aleksandr Beliaev, first published in 1925 and expanded into a novel in 1937.
Professor Green
Professor Green, real name Stephen Paul Manderson (born 1983, Hackney, London), is an English rapper and presenter behind the 2011 UK No.1 "Read All About It" and documentaries on male suicide; distinct from academic authors named Green.
Professor Griff
Professor Griff (Richard Griffin, born 1960) was Public Enemy's Minister of Information and S1W leader, fired in June 1989 after antisemitic Washington Times remarks, then pursued a solo rap and lecturing career.
Professor Jay
Professor Jay, born Joseph Haule in 1975, is a Tanzanian rapper and founding figure of bongo flava who scored nationwide hits like "Zali la Mentali".
Professor Layton (レイトン教授)
Professor Layton (レイトン教授) is Level-5's puzzle-adventure series starring Hershel Layton and Luke, born from Akira Tago's Head Gymnastics books; over 20 million sold, with New World of Steam due December 10, 2026.
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (レイトン教授と永遠の歌姫)
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (レイトン教授と永遠の歌姫) is a 2009 Toho anime film, the first feature film based on the Level-5 Nintendo DS puzzle game series, directed by Masakazu Hashimoto with an original story about a puzzle game for eternal life.
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam (レイトン教授と蒸気の新世界) is a LEVEL-5 puzzle adventure releasing December 10, 2026 on Switch 2, Switch, PS5, and Steam, set in Steam Bison one year after Unwound Future, with puzzles by QuizKnock and theme song by Joe Hisaishi and Lilas.
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a 2014 Nintendo 3DS crossover adventure by Level-5 and Capcom, published by Nintendo, alternating Layton puzzle investigation and Ace Attorney witch trials in the city of Labyrinthia.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a 2017 biographical drama directed by Angela Robinson, starring Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, and Bella Heathcote as William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and Olive Byrne, whose polyamorous relationship inspired Wonder Woman.
Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is Sherlock Holmes's arch-nemesis, the "Napoleon of Crime" in Arthur Conan Doyle's canon. Introduced in "The Final Problem" (1893) to kill Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, he appears in person in only one story yet founded the criminal-mastermind archetype.
Professor Oak
Professor Samuel Oak (オーキド・ユキナリ博士, Dr. Yukinari Ohkido) is the Pokémon Professor of Pallet Town, Kanto, who gives new trainers starter Pokémon and the Pokédex; grandfather of rival Gary/Blue, scrapped final boss of Red and Blue.
Professor Pyg
Professor Pyg, or Lazlo Valentin, is a DC Comics villain created by Grant Morrison. He is a surgeon who kidnaps victims and surgically alters them into mind-controlled Dollotrons.
Professor T. (British TV series)
Professor T. is a British crime drama starring Ben Miller as Cambridge criminologist Jasper Tempest, an eccentric professor with OCD who advises police, premiering in 2021.
Professor Tanaka
Professor Tanaka, also known as Professor Toru Tanaka, was an American professional wrestler born in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose real name was Charles J. Kalani Jr.
Professor X
Professor X (Charles Francis Xavier) is Marvel's telepathic founder of the X-Men, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in X-Men #1 (1963). Known for Cerebro, his wheelchair, his integrationist dream versus Magneto, and film portrayals by Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy.
Professors in the United States
Professors in the United States, or the US professoriate, are faculty holding academic ranks such as assistant, associate, and full professor. Only about a quarter are tenured; most instructors are contingent, per AAUP data.
PROFETHYL/2 trial
PROFETHYL/2 (NCT02869763), a WADA-collaborated randomized crossover trial by Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, tested 10 g and 20 g ethanol doses versus water in 12 healthy Caucasian women to measure alcohol's effect on the urinary steroid profile.
Profibus
Profibus (PROcess-FIeld-BUS) is an open fieldbus standard for industrial communication in manufacturing and process automation, developed in Germany in 1987, standardized under IEC 61158, with over 60 million nodes installed worldwide as of 2019.
PROFIdrive
PROFIdrive is the standardized application profile for electric drives on PROFIBUS and PROFINET networks, defining telegrams, parameter access, and a state machine so drives from different manufacturers interoperate.
Profil
Profil was a Norwegian literary magazine published by students in Oslo that launched a generation of writers and gave its name to Profil modernism, closing in 1989.
Profile likelihood
The profile likelihood is a function derived from a multi-parameter likelihood by fixing the parameter of interest and maximizing over nuisance parameters, supporting confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.
Profile monitor
A profile monitor is a beam instrumentation device that measures the transverse distribution of particles in an accelerator beam, revealing its size, position, and shape.
Profile monitoring
Profile monitoring is a statistical process control method in which process quality is characterized by the relationship between a response variable and explanatory variables, observed as a curve at each sampling stage.
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico (El perfil del hombre y la cultura en México) is a 1934 book by Samuel Ramos on Mexican national character and the sentiment of inferiority.
Profile of Mood States
The Profile of Mood States (POMS) is a 65-item self-report checklist measuring mood across six dimensions, developed by McNair, Lorr, and Droppleman and first published in 1971.
Profile-guided dynamic recompilation
Profile-guided dynamic recompilation recompiles program code while it runs, using runtime measurements to find hot code paths and optimize them, avoiding the need for a preselected training workload.