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-George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of [[SF]] stories by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]. Unlike Doyle's better-known character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is a dominating figure.
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-Like Sherlock Holmes, however, Professor Challenger was based on a real person -- in this case, a professor of physiology named William Rutherford, who had lectured at The University of Edinburgh while Doyle studied medicine there.
-Doyle's Professor Challenger stories are ''The Lost World'' (1912), ''The Poison Belt'' (1913), ''The Land of Mist'' (1926), ''The Disintegration Machine'' (1928), and ''When the World Screamed'' (1929).
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