Robert K. Merton

Academic Appointments 1933-36 Research & Teaching Assistant, Harvard University 1936-39 Tutor & Instructor, Harvard University 1939-41 Associate Professor; Professor & Chairman, Department of Sociology, Tulane University Columbia University 1941-62 Assistant Professor to Professor of Sociology 1942-71 Associate Director, Bureau of Applied Social Research 1963-74 Giddings Professor of Sociology 1974-79 University Professor 1979-84 Special Service Professor 1979University Professor Emeritus 1979Adjunct Faculty, The Rockefeller University 1979-99 Resident Scholar; Foundation Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation 1986-87 George Sarton Professor of the History of Science, University of Ghent (Belgium)