Carlos Frenk
publication date: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 (part of Winter 2020)
category: 
Education
clue: This science professor left his native Mexico to study the cosmos in England.
explanation: Professor Frenk is a distinguished cosmologist at Durham University. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, and Erik Bates
Springfield IRL: After two seasons of shorts, The Simpsons debuted as a series on December 17, 1989. Celebrate the show's thirtieth anniversary with this theme of seven people who could have walked out of the show into real life, and don't have a cow, man.
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