Timeline for When and why did the postdoctoral position originate? [closed]
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| Oct 28, 2014 at 14:20 | history | closed |
j.c. Willie Wong user9072 Jeremy Rickard Lucia |
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| Oct 28, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Willie Wong | I am voting to close this question as off-topic 4 years down the line because (a) I think MO has evolved during the past few years so that questions such as this one are no longer on topic (b) this particular question would now better belong to academia.stackexchange.com (c) there has been recent activity bumping this question back to the front page. | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 9:58 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 4, 2010 at 16:42 | answer | added | Michael Greenblatt | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 15:10 | answer | added | Jim Humphreys | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 14:07 | answer | added | jmvidal | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 13:03 | answer | added | Willie Wong | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 4:12 | history | edited | Manoj |
Added tag "soft-question"
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| Mar 3, 2010 at 4:11 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Ben Webster♦ | ||
| Mar 2, 2010 at 22:56 | answer | added | JBorger | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 2, 2010 at 20:13 | answer | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 2, 2010 at 18:36 | comment | added | Regenbogen | Is this an appropriate question for MO? It has nothing mathematical to it. Starting of postdoc positions is an academic event which has nothing to do with the subject you are doing. | |
| Mar 2, 2010 at 18:33 | comment | added | jvkersch | Generally speaking, if you read for instance Lie's biography, it seems like a lot depended on the soft touch: since the academic world was a lot smaller, having the right recommendations seemed to matter more, and so I am not surprised at a smooth operator like Mittag-Leffler (I'm being unfair here) becoming a tenured faculty right away, while it took Lie some time to develop his mathematical character and settle into an academic career (again oversimplifying). In any case, Lie supported himself with scholarships (but they were few), so untenured positions did exist. | |
| Mar 2, 2010 at 18:33 | answer | added | Andrea Mori | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 2, 2010 at 18:30 | comment | added | jvkersch | The opposite is also true. Faced with only few academic positions and no temporary mandates like postdocs, instructorships, etc. people would hang around as unpaid Privatdozente (in Germany at least) until something opened up, often only years later. | |
| Mar 2, 2010 at 17:56 | history | asked | Manoj | CC BY-SA 2.5 |