Faculty Position Quotes

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 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

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

My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

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

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.