In other words, “being absent-minded” was somehow tied to “being a professor.” It had nothing to do with his brain; it was a consequence of his social role. The day that he quit being a ...

Von Karman is the model absent-minded professor. After he returns from a long trip, dozens of hats that he has lost dribble back by mail. During the war he was followed around by a special ...

Some professors, male and female, used it to encourage students ... largely supplanted the once pervasive notion of the absent-minded professor, due to various cultural factors.

The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American film distributed by Walt Disney Productions based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor. The title character was based in ...