Academic Promotion Quotes

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

I've now been encouraged by many people to apply and so I did apply and I have now been made, full professor. I'm happy about that.