Academic Position Quotes

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

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.

I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.

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

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.

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

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

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

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

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

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.