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e15bffef | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b4c50e1b @0269c0e4 

She doesn't have to accept promotion or tenure and she probably doesn't have to route the Nobel money through that affiliation. I'd keep the appointment, reject promotion and tenure, accept another appointment at another school and  route the money through that affiliation.

But I'm a vindictive old guy so I have behavioral flaws related to large institutions and how they're run.
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John Carlos Baez | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f26421da - I don't think people route their Nobel prize through an institution.  Grants, yes - because you apply *through* the university, and the university forces you to give them a cut.

"The typical Nobel Prize winner is no slouch — he or she has probably already got a good job at a prestigious university — but while winners make an honest dollar, wealthy they are not. Most laureates spend their prize money (about $1.4 million) in mundane ways: to pay the mortgage, buy a car or save for rainier days. MIT's Wolfgang Ketterle, one of three scientists to win the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, said, "I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children." Others, meanwhile, such as the late Franco Modigliani, an MIT professor who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985, buy a sailboat.  In the following pages: how a smattering of other Nobel laureates spent their winnings."

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https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1848817_1848816_1848803,00.html