Word: knowleses
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During his time at Oxford, Knowles and his family spent several extended periods in the United States. In addition to a post-doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, Knowles also spent several sabbatical terms as a visiting professor at Yale.
Knowles first came to Harvard in 1973 to hold the Sloan visiting professorship. After he returned to England, Harvard's Chemistry Department offered him a tenured appointment, and the Knowles family moved to Cambridge the following year.
Science absorbed his father during Timothy Knowles' childhood.
"I had no idea he was a famous chemist," says Timothy Knowles, who was a principal of a primary school before studying at the GSE. "I knew he was an incredibly busy man, always going to somewhere called the lab."
Harvard's Chemistry department gave Knowles his own laboratory in the Mallinkrodt Building and a group of 15 or so researchers when he accepted the tenured position.