The Absent-Minded Professor was one of the first Disney films to be colorized (for the 1986 video release), and, along with 1959's "The Shaggy Dog" and 1963's "Son of Flubber", it is one of Disney's few black-and-white films to be produced after 1941. Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) (pronounced BRAY-nard) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery "Flubber", which is a
George Wilson Pierson a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends." Pierson's published writings encompass 38 works in 53 publications in 2 languages and 3,904 library holdings. His works are widely studied and are used frequently in most collegiate level U.S. history courses. George Wilson Pierson George Wilson Pierson (22 October 1904 – 12 October 1993) was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university. Pierson was a descendant of Yale's first rector, Abraham Pierson, and he was related to the college's first student. He was the