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Lawson was the president of Fisk
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during the late 1960s, donor support dwindled further, leading to "salary cuts of twenty percent and operational budget cuts of twenty-five percent". Fisk's endowment went from $ 10 million to $ 4 million. Lawson resigned due to "severe decreases in faculty, staff and student enrollment". In
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from 1940 to 1942. He became an associate professor and chair of the physics department at his alma mater, Fisk
University, in 1942. There, he established the Fisk Infrared Research Laboratory and, together with fellow physicist
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