Complex sentence: He refused all offers of advanced degrees or positions of authority at MIT as he would have to sign his name; nevertheless, he remained employed as a research associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1952 to 1969.
Split into simpler sentences: He refused all offers of advanced degrees or official positions at MIT as he would have to sign his name. Pitts was a research associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1952 to 1969.