Maybe Jordan Peterson is a recent example?
What is the best example of tenure allowing for the development of an unconventional idea that would otherwise have resulted in a professor being fired (its original purpose)?
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And what is his idea?
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Andrew Weyl proved the centuries-old Fermat's Last Theorem after a couple of "unproductive" decades spent seeking a proof. A corporate-style productivity review would have been bad news for him.
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Andrew Wiles
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Oops, right, thanks.
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As an aside point, quite a bit of credit on Wiles proof goes to Ken Ribet, particularly his 1986 proof of the epsilon conjecture.
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Claire Patterson being the sole scientist for years arguing leaded gasoline was polluting the earth, had no safe dose, and we should stop doing it-
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I thought of this as a good possible example as well, but from what I read, Clair Patterson actually refused tenure for some reason.
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Hard to know without a control, but Laura Manuelidis's thesis that TSEs are caused not by prions but by an infectious agent? She went up directly against Prusiner. Verdict still out on it (although more plausible every day - latest findings on AD-gingivitis for instance).
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I have yet to see someone expert in microbiome studies who likes that AD-gingivitis paper
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Was tenure designed to allow controversial ideas to emerge? Really? Looks more like a regular job perk to me.
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If you substitute marriage for tenure then this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall …
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How did his marriage give him more intellectual freedom?
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Late to the convo, but tenure for scientists is often to provide job security under conditions of blue skies research that would have led to dismissal for lack of immediate obvious marketability or usefulness to admins. Jennifer Doudna. (And me.)
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Even a small risk of firing is often enough to reduce risk taking. George Church didn’t complete his first PhD program due to being “distracted” with stuff like sequencing and use of computers (gasp!). Also see Sydney Brenner’s views. Many people are denied tenure every year!
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Is tenure supposed to protect intellectually unconventional ideas, or just the ideas that piss off the current university administration? It's probably done that latter job orders of magnitude more times than the former.
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Was going to suggest Stanley Prusiner, who I remembered from this article, but apparently he didn't have tenure before starting to work on prions, and his first bid for it failed.https://www.wired.com/story/sleep-no-more-crusade-genetic-killer/ …
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Greta Keller?
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Gerta stupid autocorrect
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