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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:46:00 EST
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- From: Josh Goldstein <JOSH@NEURON.UCHC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: being famous, etc
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- In reply to Joel Shenker's message of 12 Jan:
-
- You made a good point about cause and effect. I am left to wonder
- why, though, a major researcher would go to the big name institutions, if
- they got famous at wherever they are. It's well and good to say that your
- institution doesn't matter, that you can do great research anywhere, and I
- would imagine that the most brilliant people will succeed anywhere. But if
- these brilliant people move to a big name institution as soon as they can,
- I am left to conclude that the big names are preferable.
- In general, they probably have more money, more facilities, and I
- guess all the other famous researchers. I don't know, but the fact that all
- the big name people END UP at the big name places, no matter how they got
- there, tells me that these places MUST be more desirable.
-
- Or is it the fame alone that attracts people?
-
- --Josh
- 1/7, UConn
-