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Names: Carlson, Elof Axel, author.
Title: How to construct your intellectual pedigree : a history of mentoring
in science / Elof Axel Carlson, Stony Brook University, New York.
Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2021] | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020034091 | ISBN 9789811215827 (hardcover) | ISBN
9789811215834 (ebook) | ISBN 9789811215841 (ebook other)
Subjects: LCSH: Scientists. | Intellectuals.
Classification: LCC Q141 .C218 2021 | DDC 509.2/2--dc23
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Contents
Topics 1What are Intellectual Pedigrees?
Topics 2The Origin of Academic Pedigrees
Topics 3How to Prepare Your Academic Pedigree
First-person Narrative for Elof Axel Carlson
Comment on First- or Third-person Usage
Topics 4First Mentoring Influence on Elof Carlson — Morris Gabriel Cohen
Topics 5Second Mentoring Influence on Elof Carlson: Hermann Joseph Muller
Topics 6Muller’s Intellectual Pedigree Through Morgan
Topics 7Muller’s Mentor Lineage to Morgan Via H. Newell Martin
Topics 8Muller’s Lineage from Morgan’s Second Mentor, William Keith Brooks
Topics 9My Connection to Muller’s Academic Pedigree
Topics 10My Academic Descendants
Topics 11Representing Inputs to My Academic Life
Topics 12List of Inputs into My Life
Topics 13Assessing Inputs into My Life
Topics 14Assessing Outputs in My Life
Topics 15Inputs into Muller’s Life
Topics 16Comments for Muller’s Outputs
Topics 17Evaluating the Outputs of Scientific Careers
Topics 18Reflections on Constructing Intellectual Pedigrees
Appendix AUsing Non-illustrated Vertical Intellectual Pedigrees
Appendix BReference Intellectual Pedigree for Hermann Joseph Muller
Commentary on the Muller Reference Pedigree