Professor Tournesol

Presentation

It joined Tintin, Milou and the Capitaine Haddock starting from the album the Treasury of Rackham the Red , where it builds for them a prototype of exploring Sous-marin in form of Requin, with an aim of finding the treasure sought since the Secrecy of the Unicorn .

In Objective the Moon , it builds in Syldavie a lunar rocket with atomic Moteur with which it leaves accompanied by Tintin and his friends on the the Moon in One walked on the Moon . In Objectif the Moon it pricks one of most beautiful angers of the history of the cartoon, where it is discovered that to treat it of zouave is one of the worst insults than one can make him.

In the album the Temple of the Sun , his/her friends seek it after it was removed by downward people of the Incas, to have made what they estimate to be a sacrilege… In the Business Sunflower , it is successively removed by the Syldaves and the Bordures, interested by its last invention which uses the Ultra-son S as arms with destruction… at least for the Verre and the Porcelaine first.

Sunflower is very hard of the ear, and hears usually only the last letters of the sentences that one says to him. It is source of many surrealist dialogs, in particular with the Capitaine Haddock. In Objective the Moon and One went on the Moon , Tournesol acquires an apparatus accoustic which gives him a normal hearing in order to conclude the lunar mission.

Curiously, without a reason not being given, it will not carry any more this apparatus thereafter, and will become again naturally hard of ear. One can explain that by two reasons:

Hergé perhaps estimated that the bad hearing of Sunflower still had a good comic potential (cf misunderstandings which it starts in the Jewels of Castafiore ) and which it would be a shame not to benefit from it;
It is necessary to keep in mind that the album of Tintin which follows immediately One went on the Moon is the Business Sunflower , in which the bad hearing of the professor is one of the element-engines of the scenario (because of her, he does not hear the ringing of the telephone when Tintin and Haddock invite it to say to him that he is in danger, and is thus made remove); Hergé could need in this album, for scenaristic reasons, on a deaf Sunflower, and would have decided, by preoccupation with a coherence, to present it with the same problems of hearing in the following albums.

Inspiration

The character of professor Tournesol is a transposition of the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard, explorer of the upper atmosphere and great depths, inventor of the Bathyscaphe, and first of a line of savanturiers . By his use of the Pendulum, all the same unusual at a scientist, Tournesol recalls also the professor Yves Rocard of the Collège de France. Let us note that it is also once called professor Tournedos by Bianca Castafiore which takes it for a celebrates sporting which made splendid rises in balloon .

Professor Tournesol throughout the world

Through the multiple translations of the adventures of Tintin, the name of professor Tournesol varies according to the national and linguistic editions. One can notice that the local translation of the Tournesol is often used but, with the image of the English translation, it is also often referred to the extraordinary capacities of his brain! Thus, it is called:

Professor Fosfatus in version afrikaaner
Professor Cuthbert Calculus in english language version
Professor Balduin Bienlein in German version
Isidore Sunflower in Alsatian version

Tornasol irakaslea in Basque version

Tornassol in Catalan version
圖納思教授 or 涂納思教授 in Chinese version
Professor Tryphon Sunflower in Danish version
Woodland Profesor Tornasol in Spanish version
Professori Teophilus Tuhatkauno in Finnish version
פרופסורקלקולוס (Profesor Qalqoulous) in Hebraic version
Prófessor Vilhjálmur Vandráður in Icelandic version
Professor Tornasole in Italian version
ビーカー教授 in Japanese version
Professor Trifonius Zonnebloem in version Dutchwoman
pr. Słonecznik in Polish version
professor Trifólio Girasol in Portuguese version
Professor Karl Kalkyl in Swedish version
Profesor Kalkulus in Czech version
Profesör Turnösol in Turkish version
Profesoro Sunfloro in version espérantophone
پروفسورتورنُسِل in version Arabic-speaking person

See too

Professor Tournesol is the author of many inventions and discovered, listed on the page inventions of the Professor Tournesol.

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