>>92788376>>92788667To clarify, Eobard personally retconned his backstory after the Blackest Night, ensuring that he'd become an actual professor in the Flash Museum, where he got named "Professor Zoom" even prior to getting powers for his extensive research on Speed Force.
Then again, in Silver and Bronze Ages the editors would often forget their own facts, stuff like what's Zoom's power source (can he use them without his suit or not), his name (Eobard Thawne, Edward Thawnye or Adrian Zoom) and his academics (Zoom has a part in the Secret Society run, the one led by Wizard, where he boasts of his academic background as a professor, contrary to his origin comic).