emeritus
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Murdoch is chairman emeritus of both Fox and News Corp, parent of The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Jan Brueckner, emeritus economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, told AFP last week that the fuel price surge was "the straw that broke the camel's back."
From Barron's • May 2, 2026
"The results are a surprise. They turn our understanding of the evolution of the eye and the brain upside down," says Dan-E Nilsson, professor emeritus in sensory biology at Lund University.
From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026
“It’s spontaneous combustion,” said James Boles, a professor emeritus with UC Santa Barbara’s Earth Science Department.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
He became professor emeritus in 1872, and died at Groningen on the 5th of December 1886.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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