The Harvard Gazette reports that Gary King and Marc Kirschner have been named University Professors.

So, what’s a University Professor? According to the article, this title is reserved for “individuals of distinction … working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties.”

Currently, there are only 22 University Professors at Harvard so Princeton University Press is proud to congratulate Gary King on this wonderful honor. King is a three-time Princeton University Press author and most recently co-authored Demographic Forecasting with Federico Girosi. He is also, as we learned from the article, a former professional magician proficient in “doing magic, escapes, and juggling.”

Read the complete article at The Harvard Gazette.