Professor Challenger
The Professor George Edward Challenger, a British scientific, is a recurrent character created by Arthur Conan Doyle appearing in 2 short stories and 3 novels of science-fiction. The stories have been serialized in The Strand Magazine between april 1912 and january 1929, and collected in book after the last episode.
Conan Doyle stories
Novels
- The Lost World (april-november 1912)
- The Poison Belt (april-august 1913)
- The Land of Mist (july 1925-may 1926)
Short stories
- When the World Screamed (april-may 1928)
- The Disintegration Machine (january 1929)
Adaptations
Year : Title : Challenger performer
TV/Cinema
- 2005 : King of the Lost World (Bruce Boxleitner)
- 2001 : The Lost World (Bob Hoskins) TV
- 1999-2002 : The Lost World (Peter McCauley) TV x66
- 1998 : The Lost World (Patrick Bergin) TV
- 1998 : The Lost World (Armin Shimerman) TV
- 1997 : The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- 1992 : The Lost World (John Rhys-Davies) TV
- 1960 : The Lost World (Claude Rains)
- 1925 : The Lost World (Wallace Beery)
Theatre
- 2015 : The Lost World (Jim Behr) US
- 2015 : The Lost World (US)
- 2014-2015 : Затерянный Mир (Andrei Bazhin) RU
- 2013-2014 : The Lost World (Dominic Goodwin) UK
- 2009 : The Lost World (UK)
- 2003 : The Lost World (Richard Dax) UK
- 2000 : The Lost World (Patrick Selden) UK
- 1998 : The Lost World (Armin Shimerman) US
Radio
- 2011 : The Lost World (David Robb) UK
- 1997 : The Lost World (Johnny Briggs) US
- 1975 : The Lost World (Francis de Wolff) UK
- 1966 : Dinosaurs! (Basil Rathbone) US
- 1949 : The Lost World (Abraham Sofaer) UK
- 1944 : The Lost World (John Dickson Carr) UK
Performers
Legacy / Scientific Homage
Irritator challengeri (1996)
In 1996, the dinosaur species Irritator challengeri was named after Professor Challenger. The original description explains the species name as: "from Professor Challenger, the fictitious hero and dinosaur discoverer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World." The taxon was described by Martill, Cruickshank, Frey, Small and Clarke in the Journal of the Geological Society.
- See also Arthurdactylus conandoylei (1994)
