Achievements
Professor Farnsworth has pioneered many important inventions throughout the series, including the design of all modern robots and the meta-particles capable of converting dark matter into useful energy. Farnsworth has also received many honors. For stopping global warming and Richard Nixon's evil plans ("Crimes of the Hot"), Nixon awarded him the Polluting Medal of Pollution. He also received the Academy of Inventors award for stopping a giant trash meteor from destroying New New York City ("A Big Piece of Garbage"). He also invented the first robot capable of qualifying for a boat loan ("A Clone of My Own") and the Planet Express Ship's dark matter engines. His "Smell-O-Scope", which detects scents throughout the universe, has been used in many important situations. In the film Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, Wernstrom mentions that Farnsworth is a recipient of the Fields Medal, which is awarded only to scientists under 40 years of age. He is also known to have created several doomsday devices, one of which was used to stop time skips.
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