# How Old Are The Character on "The Big Bang Theory" Suppose To Be?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-the-character-on-the-big-bang-theory-suppose-to-be/525747 "2010-01-20T21:44:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-the-character-on-the-big-bang-theory-suppose-to-be/525747/101 "2012-04-28T14:15:54Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> I was a “Postdoctoral Instructor” at Caltech, which meant I taught classes of my own, and my (undergrad) students, somewhat to my discomfiture, insisted on addressing me as “professor”.\* I did not feel entitled to it, especially as I had come from Britain where only the equivalent of American “full professors” get to be called professor. I would have been much more comfortable being called “Doctor” to which I was proud of being entitled. However, it was clearly not something you could fight. I have taught in other California universities and colleges too, and always been addressed as “Professor” by undergrads even though I was not truly of professorial rank.

This may be a British vs American thing. In my American college days, everyone was “Professor,” regardless of where they were in their tenure track and even most of the Doctors were referred to as “Professor.”

This was at RIT in the early 2000s.

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