 However, by the late 1970s, increasingly sidelined by an unsympathetic new University administration and hampered by tightening fiscal restraints, he accepted the offer of a distinguished professorship at Brown University, where he taught until his retirement in 1988.As an Emeritus, he kept energetically publishing and guest-lecturing until his sudden death of a heart attack a decade later.The Albert Spaulding Cook Prize at Brown University was established in his honor.