How to Construct Your Intellectual Pedigree. Elof Axel Carlson

      

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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

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      Subjects: LCSH: Scientists. | Intellectuals.

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      Contents

       Preface

       Topics 1What are Intellectual Pedigrees?

       Recommended Reading

       Topics 2The Origin of Academic Pedigrees

       Notes and References

       Topics 3How to Prepare Your Academic Pedigree

       Writing My Own Entry

       First-person Narrative for Elof Axel Carlson

       Third-person Narrative

       Comment on First- or Third-person Usage

       Note

       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

       List of Outputs from My Life

       Topics 15Inputs into Muller’s Life

       List of Muller’s Inputs

       List of Outputs by Muller

       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

       Appendix CIntellectual Pedigrees

       Pedigree of Charlotte Auerbach