She was awarded tenure in 1938, denied a professorship for 18 years, and when she presented her Ph.D thesis she was the one that determined that the sun is made dominantly of hydrogen, not ion, the way most of the old goats thought.

她是在1938年被授予长期聘用资格，拒绝接受教授职位18年，她在她的博士论文写到,她就知道,太阳主要是由氢组成的，不是那些老教授认为的那样它是由离子构成的。

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But even then, that may not be enough."-- Because once you don't get tenure in one place, you don't go up in terms of the ranking of the school-- you very often would get tenure but elsewhere, school that is not considered as good as the one where you were rejected.

即使到了那时，可能也不够-,如果在一所学校无法获得终身职位，就没有可能在更高学府取得-,经常是在别的院校获得，那些比拒绝你的学院,差一等的院校。

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