Oak is the pioneer of Pokémon research with the Pokédex and all, but he forgot his grandson’s name.
Elm’s only contribution to the scientific world is noticing that Pokémon come out of eggs, which for some reason no one had realized before, unless you assume Elm’s discovery to be that ALL Pokémon come out of eggs, which is signifanctly cooler.
Birch is a literal retard who, despite dedicating his life’s work to studying Pokémon in the field, went out without any safety measure to a wild dog (and venomous giant caterpillars) infested Route.
Sonia is a literal newbie who got her job through nepotism and nepotism only, but she does have potential.
These are the 4 candidates for dumbest imo, for the smartest prof I have no fucking idea desu