Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip Benedict
Held a named chair at a major university and was then a full professor (European universities don't have many named chairs) and director of an institute at another major university. Seems to me to meet 
— User:Necrothesp, 14:14, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)