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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Rare. I found only these:
Paul Martin, a Meritus Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona and leading expert on the theory …
www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=263
That’s certainly the view confirmed by Garth Nettheim, a meritus Professor of Law at the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of New South Wales.
www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s152070.htm
I’m Tom Ferguson from Washington University in St. Louis, a Meritus Professor of Surgery there, and I’m a consultant to the Panel.
www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/transcr … ession.htm
He is a meritus professor at the University of Ibidan in Nigeria.
www.dac.gov.za/about_us/cd_nat_language … indaba.htm
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Also “A meritous professor”.
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s142811.htm
“Neville Quarry, a meritous Professor at Sydney’s University of Technology,”
http://www.iddv.com/events/tatestives.htm
“joined by Richard Gregory (a meritous professor of neuro psychology at University of Bristol)”
Googling confirms that both are emeritus professors.
Lara
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Are the writers confusing “meritous” with “meritorious”? If so, that makes the whole thing more eggcornish, but it more or less erases the implication that the professor has retired.
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