The Education of the Younger Starred Scientists
A SUMMARY as to the education of the two hundred fifty scientists first starred, by vote of their fellow specialists as distinguished in research, in the sixth edition of Cattell's American Men of Science issued last August, is of interest, as is brief discussion of some of the changes in the education of the younger starred scientists as compared with those selected earlier. The present discussion is somewhat comparable to studies made by Cattell of the older groups1 and to one made by the present writer in this JOURNAL.2 The two hundred fifty most recently starred scientists received their undergraduate training in more than I 20 colleges. Only eleven conferred the Bachelor's degree on four or more of the subsequently starred scientists who tell where they obtained their first degrees: Harvard, I4; California and Michigan, Io; Chicago, 9; Princeton, 7; Yale and Cornell, 5; Massachusetts Tech., Northwestern, Pennsylvania, and Stanford, 4. The following graduated three each: Albion, Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Hopkins, Illinois,