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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (765648)	1/24/2014 10:10:56 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572447

Hi J_F_Shepard; Re: "How many of your examples are based on experimental work?"; Only Madame Curie got her hands dirty. The rest did chalk work very much like mathematics. Math and physics are very similar in that people's best work tends to be done when they're PhD candidates. If you want a list of mathematicians who did famous work before their PhD was granted you can generate a similar list by going through the wikpedia list of famous mathematicians. The list is much longer than the list of famous physicists so you'll probably find your dozen without having to leave the A's: en.wikipedia.org What the heck, I'll get you started: Aalen, Odd Aalen's early work on counting processes and martingales, starting with his 1976 Ph.D. thesis* at the University of California, Berkeley, has had profound influence in biostatistics.* en.wikipedia.org -- Carl P.S. The only reason I gave you a list of physicists instead of mathematicians is because I do my work in physics, not mathematics. So I didn't have to read the bios, I could pick out the famous names by recognition.