Despite yet another offer from the Institute for Advanced Study, Feynman rejected the Institute on the grounds that there were no teaching duties: Feynman felt that students were a source of inspiration and teaching was a diversion during uncreative spells. Because of this, the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University jointly offered him a package whereby he could teach at the university and also be at the institute.[citation needed] Feynman instead accepted an offer from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)—and as he says in his book Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!—because a desire to live in a mild climate had firmly fixed itself in his mind while he was installing tire chains on his car in the middle of a snowstorm in Ithaca.
Despite yet another offer from the Institute for Advanced Study , Feynman rejected the Institute on the grounds that there were no teaching duties : Feynman felt that students were a source of inspiration and teaching was a diversion during uncreative spells . Because of this , the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University jointly offered him a package whereby he could teach at the university and also be at the institute.[citation needed ] Feynman instead accepted an offer from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech)—and as he says in his book Surely You 're Joking Mr. Feynman!—because a desire to live in a mild climate had firmly fixed itself in his mind while he was installing tire chains on his car in the middle of a snowstorm in Ithaca .
Why did Feynman decide to turn down an offer from the Institute of Advanced Study?
Why did Feynman decide to turn down an offer from the Institute of Advanced Study ?
no teaching duties
no teaching duties