Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply
Professor, is a fictional character in the American
animated television series Futurama. Farnsworth is the
mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service, for whom the main characters work. He is the great (×30) nephew of
Philip J. Fry, the series' protagonist. He alternates between
intelligence and
amoral senility due to his
centenarian age – he has always mastered any field of science necessary for the series' plots, and is suggested to be one of the most brilliant
inventors on Earth, but he falls asleep constantly, and he is implied to have routinely sent his former crews on
suicide missions.