benefit_of_mrkite t1_iqovy3v wrote
Reply to comment by CombatDeffective in TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview
Wonder if they had PhD candidates back then.
“Yes I will sponsor you but part of your lab duties will include weighing my food and excrement.”
Ameren t1_iqrloxs wrote
>Wonder if they had PhD candidates back then.
They did! Since the early days of the European university system (since the 1100s or so), graduate students have worked under the tutelage/mentorship of one or more advisors as part of their education. As a STEM PhD myself, academic genealogy is fun to look into. For example, Sir Isaac Newton had a student, who had a student, and so on, who eventually had me.
Santorio became the chair of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Padua, which was a very well-known and respected institution (Galileo also taught there, for instance). I'd have to do some digging, but I'm sure he had plenty of PhD students whose lineage continues to the present day.
m945050 t1_iqturpz wrote
An educational example of KJV's begets.
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