Timeline for Is there any disadvantage to having PhD skipping M.Sc.?
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| Sep 1, 2012 at 20:29 | vote | accept | ShadowWarrior | ||
| Aug 11, 2012 at 6:33 | comment | added | Dan C | Jack Edmonds, the father of Polyhedral Combinatorics (a major area of combinatorial optimization), never got a PhD. But that didn't stop him from becoming a math professor at Waterloo, which has one of the best departments in the world. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 15:27 | comment | added | JeffE | My great-great-grand-advisor did not have a PhD. Or a middle name (just an initial). | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 15:08 | comment | added | Jeff | This brings to mind two very interesting cases: The famous mathematician Barry Mazur has no undergraduate degree. (He never completed MIT's ROTC requirements.) The famous philosopher Saul Kripke has no PhD! | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 5:24 | comment | added | Artem Kaznatcheev | I have a pedantic disagreement with this: the statement is true only under the assumption that all your degrees are in the same field. If you get a PhD after an MD, or if you get a PhD in sociology after a Masters in physics, the previous degrees might still matter. Your previous degrees in the same (or close related) field(s) don't matter. | |
| Aug 9, 2012 at 18:48 | history | answered | JeffE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |