Duty, family, duty, duty.
Because his fellowship involved no teaching duties and because he never married, he was able to devote the major part of his life to writing.
"We're looking to combine deep scientific thinking with a young person's perspective," says Marie Mapes, a physical chemist who is overseeing the new fellowship program along with her regular duties in EERE's Solar Energy Technologies Program.
I had gone to the former Eastern Bloc shortly after graduate school on a United States government fellowship, and I felt it my duty to show by example how the free world worked.
It was also the finish of his official duties, with the graceful golden handshake of a short fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford.
A postdoc fellowship might also be a time to explore teaching and/or administrative duties in addition to research.
Although it topped up her fellowship salary and added to the prestige without requiring onerous teaching and administrative duties, "there was no guarantee of employment beyond the end of my fellowship," she says.
After naval duties in the Pacific during the second world war, he won a playwriting fellowship, and studied drama under the theatre historian John Gassner.
After more than one failure to obtain a college fellowship, he was in December 1870 elected to one at Merton College Oxford, tenable for life, with no teaching duties, and terminable only on marriage.
Almost at once, he achieved a dazzling success: he took an exam and won a Prize Fellowship at All Souls, which entitled him to room and board at the college for seven years, with no teaching duties.
