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Being almost done with your PhD doesn't make you an amateur in the sense used in the article.
by JoachimSchipper 17y ago
Being almost done with your PhD doesn't make you an amateur in the sense used in the article.
- arethuza 17y agoThe Patent Office wasn't paying him to do his research - he had a "day job" that he needed to do to make ends meet and to allow him some time to do what he had a passion for in his own time. What is that if it isn't an amateur?
- JoachimSchipper 17y agoClearly, Einstein wasn't a professional researcher at the time; however, he wasn't an outsider either, having gotten his PhD.
- hga 17y agoIt also bears emphasizing that he was a theoretician, not an experimentalist. He made his name in 1905 explaining phenomena that no one else had been able to (or doing a lot better job of it). To do this you need familiarity with the field and time to think and so on.
- arethuza 17y agoBut he did lots of his major work before he got his PhD.
- scott_s 17y agoBecause getting a PhD requires doing research in your field.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoSo if someone with multiple doctorates resigns his tenured position and works at McDonald's flipping burgers during the day, he is back to amateur status?