I do wonder to what degree that may be biased by the fact that there were vastly less academic positions before WWI/WWII. In the time of Darwin and Carnot these positions virtually didn’t exist. In the time of Einstein they did exist but they were quite rare still.
How many examples do you know of this happening past WWII?
Shannon was at Bell Labs iirc
As counterexample of field-founding happening in academia: Godel, Church, Turing were all in academia.
Good point.
I do wonder to what degree that may be biased by the fact that there were vastly less academic positions before WWI/WWII. In the time of Darwin and Carnot these positions virtually didn’t exist. In the time of Einstein they did exist but they were quite rare still.
How many examples do you know of this happening past WWII?
Shannon was at Bell Labs iirc
As counterexample of field-founding happening in academia: Godel, Church, Turing were all in academia.