18 Facts About Professor Challenger

George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Unlike Conan Doyle's self-controlled, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure.

George Edward Professor Challenger, FRS, MD, DSc, was born in Largs, Ayrshire in 1863 and educated at Largs Academy before studying at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Professor Challenger was appointed to an assistant position at the British Museum in 1892 and was promoted within a year to assistant keeper in the Comparative Anthropology Department.

Professor Challenger held a professorship in Zoology and was elected President of the Zoological Institute in London.

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Edward Malone, the narrator of The Lost World, the 1912 novel in which Professor Challenger first appeared, described his first meeting with the character:.

Professor Challenger's head was enormous, the largest I have ever seen upon a human being.

Professor Challenger had the face and beard, which I associate with an Assyrian bull; the former florid, the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down over his chest.

Professor Challenger was, in many ways, rude, crude, and without social conscience or inhibition.

Professor Challenger married Jessica - 'Jessie' - and the couple settled at 14 Enmore Gardens, Enmore Park, Kensington, London.

Later, following his wife's death from influenza, Professor Challenger sold his London home and rented an apartment on the third floor in Victoria West Gardens, London.

Enid Professor Challenger was a freelance reporter at the same newspaper.

Professor Challenger interpreted a shift in Fraunhofer's light diffraction lines to predict that the Earth was passing through a deadly interstellar cloud of ether.

Professor Challenger was able to pursue his scientific interests independently as a result of a bequest by the rubber millionaire Betterton.

Professor Challenger hoped through this experiment to prove that the Earth was a living organism that sustained its vitality from the ether of outer space.

Professor Challenger undertook an investigation into psychic phenomena after Ted Malone and Enid Challenger's reports on spiritualism appeared in the Daily Gazette in October 1926.

Professor Challenger joined the investigation ostensibly to demonstrate the fallacies of psychic research but became convinced of the reality of intercourse with the spirits of the dead and announced his conversion in a polemic carried by The Spectator magazine.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the first person to portray Professor Challenger, dressing and making up as the professor for a photograph he wanted included in The Lost World's initial serialized publication in the Strand Magazine.