Jonathan Weems

Professor Jonathan Weems was an American scientist, who featured in one of the Fourth Doctor's "time tales".

Weems created a "ray machine" which refined the "energies" of the sap of redwood trees into a ray. A human exposed for 24 hours to the ray would acquire the longevity of a redwood tree, making them more or less immortal, but at the cost of their metabolism being slowed down like a redwood tree's, which functionally paralaysed them. The press widely misreported his findings, claiming that he had discovered a working form of immortality. One of the people taken in was Europeean businessman Luther Kane, who travelled to America to meet with Professor Weems in person. Blowing past Weems's attempts to dissuade him, he offered to buy the machine, and ultimately stole it at gunpoint. Weems insisted on also giving him the antidote ray machine, but the thoughtless Kane did not leave it within his reach when he set himself down on a slab and used the immortality ray on himself (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales)