One of my professors recently reached the legal retirement age, but applied for a senior professorship so he could keep doing research - or, as he put it, so th

One of my professors recently reached the legal retirement age, but applied for a senior professorship so he could keep doing research - or, as he put it, so that he "would be allowed to keep working". I found it very encouraging to hear that positive attitude in someone who has been at the institute for the past 30-40 years.