Tenure and Turing Award

Ken Iverson was denied tenure at Harvard in 1959,

went to IBM Research, and won the Turing award in 1979.

http://keiapl.info/anec/#one_little_book

Edsger Dijkstra was denied tenure at Amsterdam in 1970,

went to UT Austin, and won the Turing award in 1972.

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=317 page 12

Stephen Cook was denied tenure at UC Berkeley in 1970,

went to the University of Toronto, and won the Turing 

award in 1983.

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=317 page 12