The Most Productive Years of Average Astronomers
Abstract
We learned previously that geniuses and outstanding scientists have peak productivities in their 30s but produce little late in life. This time we consider average astronomers who have completed their careers (25 American Astronomical Society members who died recently) and found that they peak in their mid 40s and did half of their life's important output after age 50.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1538-3873/aa8cbc
- Bibcode:
- 2017PASP..129k4505A