RE: The Demise of a Meme

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Fri Mar 23 2001 - 16:06:18 GMT

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From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
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Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme
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    TJ:
    Occam?

    Derek:
    What a wonderful suggestion! It depends when doctoral degrees were first
    awarded, and also if the earliest degrees were awarded in the master-slave
    (sorry mentor-pupil) relationship we have today. I imagined that in
    science, it might be possible to go back at least as far as the early days
    of the Royal Society in the 1660s or so. I worry that some early degrees
    may have been 'doctor honoris causa' things and awarded by committee to
    scientists who were already well established, in which case there would be
    no line of individual succession before that point.

    Also some people, like me, are studentless (so far), so my lineage will have
    its own demise if I don't get back into academia soon.

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