I saw the movie "The Imitation Game" on Friday and spent a few hours afterwards Wikipedia-ing the Enigma Code, Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, etc. During that time, I found out that one of the members of the Turing team, Jack Good, was a professor at VT from 1967-1994 (here's a link to VT's collection on Good). Good also advised Stanley Kubrick on scientific matters for "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Reading about Dr. Good got me thinking about other VT professors (past or present) who have done cool things outside of Blacksburg. I often talk to others about famous VT alums, but have never really given the professors a whole lot of thought.
I know Dr. James (Bud) Robertson, the Civil War professor, was the chief historical consultant for Gods and Generals, helping to make sure everything was historically accurate.
The Plaid Avenger (Geography professor John Boyer) had King Abdullah II of Jordan set to come to talk to his class in 2013 before a snowstorm derailed his travel plans from D.C.
Dr. G. Wayne Clough was a VT Engineering Prof from 1982-1990 and Dean of the College of Engineering from 1990-93 and went on to become the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (as well as the president of the lesser of the ACC Techs).
Nikki Giovanni is an award-winning poet who is famously known to the Hokie community as the convocation speaker at the April 16 memorial service. She is a University Distinguished Professor in the English department.
Roland Lazenby was a faculty member in the Department of Communication and is one of the predominant Michael Jordan biographers in the world (I wanted to type "Michael Jordan scholars" but just sounds weird).
If you know of any other awesome VT professors, please leave them in the comments below!
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