Bigelow received job offers from UCLA, RAND, NYU, RCA, the University of Michigan, Hughes Aircraft, the Defense Mapping Agency, and even the Albert Einstein College of Medicine—all of which he refused. “Julian was a man who would take his soldering iron in there and just do it,” says Martin Davis. “He would have been much better off if he had never got that tenure [at IAS]. He would have got a job in industry, where he really would have flourished.”33 The Institute could not force him to resign, but they refused to increase his salary.
