 All this time , Bradbury remained nominally a professor in absentia at Stanford . The Los Alamos Laboratory was nominally run under a wartime contract with the University of California , but a clause in the contract allowed the University to terminate the contract three months after the end of the war . The university duly served notice , but Bradbury managed to get it rescinded , and in 1948 the contract was renewed . In 1951 , he became a professor at the University of California . 
