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by mandevil 1334 days ago
You can really see the results of the ebbs and flows of generations in this genealogy. The massive post-war three part economic, technological, and population booms just jumps out of this data. Ph.D's granted in this genalogy, per decade. 1870's: 1 1880's: 2 1890's: 0 1900's: 3 1910's: 0 (they were fighting a war, no time for dissertations) 1920's: 2 1930's: 2 1940's: 1 (They were fighting a war, no time for dissertations) 1950's: 0 (Baby bust from the great depression) 1960's: 4 (The intra-war and postwar kids, with funding and jobs) 1970's: 2 1980's: 0 (Too soon to be have their own students for a 1995 Ph.D)