It was a film that inspired Professor Matt Waite to set up the Drone Journalism Lab.
It is this hypocrisy and, perhaps, a little hurt pride that has inspired Professor Nutt to write his book.The professor wants Britain which, prior to the 1970s, had drug policies that would seem impossibly liberal today to honour the spirit of its laws, and to adopt a more sober analysis of the risks posed by individual drugs before deciding whether or not to ban them.
Their innovations helped inspire "Professor" Alex Bradford, a world-class whooper in the forties and fifties who was also gospel's first great provocateur.
Europe's struggles in the 1970s and 1980s with an underclass of chronically unemployed workers helped inspire Professor Pissarides, 62, a Cyprus native, to study the search costs of labor markets in the first place, he said.
Sister Margaret Loretto, a Mount dean, helped inspire Professor Hale to write a play called the Legend of Fiddler's Green.
In an interview on Tuesday, the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who has written influentially on the black experience, said that as a Yale freshman he was inspired by Professor Bryce-Laporte to become a professor himself.
An eccentric man said to have partly inspired the Professor Cuthbert Calculus character in "The Adventures of Tintin," the French comics series, the elder Piccard was a vehement nonsmoker who purportedly disdained alcohol, disliked tailored clothing and preferred to cut his own hair.
All this has inspired Sunil Khilnani, professor and director of the Indian Institute at Kings College London, and the author of the much-admired The Idea of India, to do something to fill the gap: "Indian history is a curiously unpeopled place," he writes at the opening of his engaging and skilfully woven history, Incarnations.
The Nye of "Big Bang" was inspired by Professor Proton apparently, but Newhart's character only sees it as a ripoff act.
That supposed ancestral tie was what inspired the professor-turned-Senate candidate to identify as an ethnic minority in law school directories early in her career.
Inspired by professors who Ms. Horak describes as "all crazy and eccentric and obsessed with whatever they teach," they went to museums and art galleries and began watching morbid independent films.
