Unusual Research Finding From Nazi Policies at Universities
An economist's research into the Nazi regime's dismissals of Jewish mathematics professors in the 1930's has led him to conclude that in Ph.D. supervision, big is beautiful.
Between 1933 and 1934, about 18 per cent of all mathematics professors in Germany were stripped of their posts by the Nazis, including some of the most eminent scholars of the day. Fabian Waldinger, assistant professor in the department of economics at the University of Warwick, in Britain, studied the impact of those dismissals on the mathematicians' doctoral students.
He found that the students whose subsequent careers were most adversely affected by the dismissals were those who had been supervised by highly cited professors....
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Between 1933 and 1934, about 18 per cent of all mathematics professors in Germany were stripped of their posts by the Nazis, including some of the most eminent scholars of the day. Fabian Waldinger, assistant professor in the department of economics at the University of Warwick, in Britain, studied the impact of those dismissals on the mathematicians' doctoral students.
He found that the students whose subsequent careers were most adversely affected by the dismissals were those who had been supervised by highly cited professors....