After completing his doctorate and a postdoctoral year with Robert Elderfield,Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. p. 515. Asimov was offered the position of associate professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine. This was in large part due to his years-long correspondence with William Boyd, a former associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University, who initially contacted Asimov to compliment him on his story Nightfall.Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. p. 411. Upon receiving a promotion to professor of immunochemistry, Boyd reached out to Asimov, requesting him to be his replacement. The initial offer of professorship was withdrawn and Asimov was offered the position of instructor of biochemistry instead, which he accepted.Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. p. 546. He began work in 1949 with a $5,000 salary (), maintaining this position for several years. (1987) By 1952, however, he was making more money as a writer than from the university, and he eventually stopped doing research, confining his university role to lecturing students. In 1955, he was promoted to tenured associate professor. In December 1957, Asimov was dismissed from his teaching post, with effect from June 30, 1958, due to his lack of research. After a struggle over two years, he reached an agreement with the university that he would keep his titleMultiple sources: Asimov, Isaac (1975) Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, VGSF (1988 ed.), p. 112 and give the opening lecture each year for a biochemistry class. On October 18, 1979, the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry. Asimov's personal papers from 1965 onward are archived at the university's Mugar Memorial Library, to which he donated them at the request of curator Howard Gotlieb.
After completing his doctorate and a postdoctoral year with Robert Elderfield,Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. p. 515. Asimov was offered the position of associate professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine. This was in large part due to his years-long correspondence with William Boyd, a former associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University, who initially contacted Asimov to compliment him on his story Nightfall.Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. p. 411. Upon receiving a promotion to professor of immunochemistry, Boyd reached out to Asimov, requesting him to be his replacement. The initial offer of professorship was withdrawn and Asimov was offered the position of instructor of biochemistry instead, which he accepted.Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. p. 546. He began work in 1949 with a $5,000 salary (), maintaining this position for several years. (1987) By 1952, however, he was making more money as a writer than from the university, and he eventually stopped doing research, confining his university role to lecturing students. In 1955, he was promoted to tenured associate professor. In December 1957, Asimov was dismissed from his teaching post, with effect from June 30, 1958, due to his lack of research. After a struggle over two years, he reached an agreement with the university that he would keep his titleMultiple sources: Asimov, Isaac (1975) Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, VGSF (1988 ed.), p. 112 and give the opening lecture each year for a biochemistry class. On October 18, 1979, the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry. Asimov's personal papers from 1965 onward are archived at the university's Mugar Memorial Library, to which he donated them at the request of curator Howard Gotlieb.