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

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.

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

Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1929, my father joined Qinghua as a professor, so that was also the year that I moved to that campus because my father brought the whole family along.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

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

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

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.

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

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

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.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

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

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

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

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.

My dad was an English professor.

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.