"Just see her for yourself". As the pre-eminent professor of rheumatology in my hospital, he was the one man I knew who might act.
By which I mean a life in which I was well enough regarded as the most pre-eminent Professor of Futility at the University of Sorbonne.
Some of the world's most significant hominid fossils, including Ar. ramidus, have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Middle Awash Valley, site of the Middle Awash Research Project, established in 1981 by the late J. Desmond Clark, pre-eminent archaeologist and UC Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology.
Pre-eminent oboist, inspired composer and beloved professor of music.
There was Joseph Henry, who began as an apprentice watchmaker and ended up as not only a revered Princeton professor, but the pre-eminent American scientist of the first half of the 19th century and founding head of the Smithsonian Institution.
Princeton sociology professor Katherine Newman says that Wyckoff could identify kindred spirits throughout the history of her field, including the late Harvard professor David Riesman, the pre-eminent sociologist of the 20th century, who made a brief trip to Detroit during the Great Depression to explore the experiences of an unemployed factory worker.
It is dug into our collective consciousness," says Professor Constantinos Tsoukalas, Greece's pre-eminent sociologist.
"Paul, Weiss is one of the half-dozen pre-eminent litigation law firms in the country," Professor Gillers added.
"This is a novel holding, but a correct one, I think," said Laurence H. Tribe, the Harvard Law School professor who is a pre-eminent constitutional scholar.
Until the end of World War II, the Montreal exchange was Canada's pre-eminent equity market, according to Christopher Armstrong, a professor emeritus of history at York University.
Wilson died suddenly, aged 52, in May 2014, 22 years into her tenure as leader of Britain's pre-eminent fashion master's course, where the professor was a mentor to students including Alexander McQueen, Phoebe Philo and Stella McCartney.
