Question: What is the name of the Professor who used the term "worlds funniest joke" at a United Kingdom University for research?
Context: Taking the piss is a Commonwealth term meaning to take liberties at the expense of others, or to be joking, or to be unreasonable.  It is often used to mean (or confused with) taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff.  It is also not to be confused with "taking a piss", which refers to the act of urinating.  Taking the Mickey (Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang) or taking the Michael is another term for making fun of someone.  These terms are most widely used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research.  For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.  Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries. British African Caribbean (or Afro-Caribbean) people are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background and whose ancestors were primarily natives or indigenous to Africa.  As immigration to the United Kingdom from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has sometimes been used to include UK residents solely of African origin, or as a term to define all Black British residents, though the phrase "African "and" Caribbean" has more often been used to cover such a broader grouping.  The most common and traditional use of the term African-Caribbean community is in reference to groups of residents' continuing aspects of Caribbean culture, customs and traditions in the United Kingdom. Richard J. Wiseman (born 1966) is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.  He has written several best-selling popular psychology books that have been translated into over 30 languages.  He has given keynote addresses to The Royal Society, The Swiss Economic Forum, Google and Amazon.  He is a fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a patron of the British Humanist Association. Suzanne Célina Marie Julie Joséphine Leclercq (March 28, 1901 – June 12, 1994) was a Belgian paleobotanist and paleontologist known for her study of Devonian era plants.  She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Liège, and worked in Belgium and the United Kingdom throughout her research career.  She was a member of many scientific and professional societies, including the Botanical Society of America, the Paleobotanical Society of India, and the Geological Society of Belgium, which she led from 1953-1954.  Leclercq was a professor of stratigraphy and paleophytology at her alma mater throughout her career, though she conducted research at the British Museum, the Geological Survey in London, Glasgow University, Manchester University, University College London, and Cambridge University.  The standard author abbreviation Leclercq is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. William Henry Weston Jr. (1890–1978) was an American botanist, mycologist, and first president of the Mycological Society of America.  Weston was known for his research in the fungal group known as the phycomycetes, particularly the pathogenic genus "Sclerospora".  His nickname was "Cap", an insider joke among mycologists referring to the cap the fruit body of fungi, or mushroom.  He received a BA from Dartmouth College in 1911, then received his MA in 1912 and PhD (under the supervision of Roland Thaxter) in 1915, both from Harvard University.  He worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and at Western Reserve University, then became assistant professor of botany, professor of cryptogamic botany, and chairman of the botany department, all at Harvard.  In 1962, he received the Civilian Distinguished Service Award from the United States Army for his work as a civilian consulting for the Quartermaster Corps.  He was elected to fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Emilio Spedicato (born 1945) is full professor of operations research at the University of Bergamo in Italy.  He attended the Liceo Classico Manzoni, obtaining (with Enrico Camporesi, now medical professor in Florida) the highest score in northern Italy at the final exams.  He graduated in physics at Milan University and was the first non-Chinese to receive a PhD in a mathematical discipline in China, at Dalian University of Technology.  Starting in 1969, he worked for seven years at CISE, a nuclear research center near Milano.  He also spent two years in the United Kingdom, University of Essex, and the United States, at Stanford University.  He then moved to the University of Bergamo as a professor in operations research and was for many years director of its mathematics department. L. V. Vaidyanathan ("Vaidy", Palakkad, Kerala, India, 31 May 1928 - 13 November 2000) was a soil scientist.  He obtained a first class degree from Government Victoria College, Palakkad, and then spent three years lecturing in chemistry at St. Mary's College, Thrissur, before joining the India Coffee Board at their Central Coffee Research Institute as an advisor.  He had also training association with Central Food Technology Research Institute (CFTRI), Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).  He went to England in 1959 to take up a postgraduate studentship at Rothamsted Experimental Station and obtained a PhD on soil phosphorus under the supervision of O. Talibudeen.  He also had a brief stint at the Isotope School, UKAERE, Wantage.  He then joined P. Nye at Oxford to work on ion diffusion in soils.  He did research and teaching at Soil Science Section of the School of Agriculture, University of Oxford.  He was also a guest worker at the EURATOM-ITAL, Wageningen, Netherlands.  He also worked for a year as a consultant at the Seibersdorf Laboratory of the FAO-IAEA Joint Division for Agriculture, Vienna, Austria with responsibility for training of scientists from member countries in isotopic trace use.  This included teaching assignments at the University of Tehran.  He returned to the United Kingdom in 1970 to join the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS).  He was the Secretary of ADAS social science pollution and waste products committee and was the National Specialist in Soil Crop Water relationship.  He was a visiting professor in the Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Essex and in the Chemistry of Soil Colloids Group, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham. The University Rover Challenge (URC) by the Mars Society is a robotics competition for university level students that challenges teams to design and build a rover that would be of use to early explorers on Mars.  The competition is held annually at the Mars Desert Research Station, outside Hanksville, Utah in the United States.  The site was selected by the Mars Society for its geographic similarity to Mars: In addition to being a largely barren desert area, the soil in the area has a chemical composition similar to Martian soil.  The competition has also expanded internationally to include the European Rover Challenge and the United Kingdom University Rover Challenge as part of the Rover Challenge Series. Hossein Askari was born in Iran and received his elementary and secondary education in the United Kingdom.  He then came to the United States where he earned his SB in Civil Engineering, attended the MIT Sloan School of Management, and received his PhD in Economics, all at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He was an instructor at MIT, and started his academic career in 1969 as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University, becoming Associate Professor at Wayne State University in 1973, and Associate Professor of International Business and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975 and Professor in 1978.  He has taught at George Washington University (GW) since 1982, where he has served as Chairman of the International Business Department and as Director of the Institute of Global Management and Research and is now the Iran Professor of International Business and Professor of International Affairs.
Answer: Richard Wiseman