Josiah S. Carberry

Josiah S. Carberry is a ficticious professor from Brown University, known for his work in psychoceramics, the study of cracked pots.

Carberry failed to give his first lecture in 1929, when a poster advertizing his talk on "Archaic Greek Architectural Revetments in Connection with Ionian Philosophy" was posted on campus. Since that time, he has traditionally been scheduled to lecture every Friday the 13th and February 29th (though he has had to miss all of them), and a general mythology has grown around him and his family. A snack bar on campus and the library's card catalog are named for him.

In 1991, Carberry was awarded an IgNobel Prize for interdisciplinary work, making him one of only three fictional people to have won the award. He was not present to accept at the ceremony.