Sentence examples for academic fame from inspiring English sources

We may do so in an attempt to earn academic fame.

He still plays guitar, but has had to settle for academic fame instead.

On the contrary, the path to academic fame lies in challenging conventional wisdom, which means that researchers have an incentive to come up with attention-grabbing results.

(Indeed, the observations that put him on the path to academic fame, on the subculture of marijuana smokers, began while he was playing jazz piano in Chicago strip joints. "Not burlesque houses," he says. "These were strip joints").

"Since I promoted him all the way to his academic fame today, I should also take responsibility for his improper behavior," Yau was quoted as saying to a reporter, explaining why he felt obliged to speak out.

He shot to academic fame as a 22-year-old prodigy at Harvard when he began a boldly sweeping and highly technical doctoral dissertation, published as a book in 1947 by Harvard University Press.

Don't imagine that your minor degree of fame in academic economics can carry over to the cutthroat world of comics.

Einstein's wit and clarity of thinking are evident throughout his letters, diaries and academic reports, but the fame that followed his scientific successes at times became a millstone.

Only after the final break with the composer -- which Magee ascribes to a shocking bit of gossip Wagner thoughtlessly passed on from Nietzsche's physician -- did Nietzsche throw over his career as an academic and gain his fame, indeed notoriety, in philosophy.

"Stephen Hawking: Riddles of Time & Space" (Bluewater) details the life story of the physicist, from his early days at Cambridge and struggles with a body-wrecking disease to his academic achievements and current fame.

A controversial theory proposed in 2001 by two academics, Steven Levitt (of "Freakonomics" fame) and John Donohue, which attributed half the previous decade's drop in crime to the legalisation of abortion in the 1970s, still has fans.