Professor Graff Zivin's Research Featured
02/16/2009
Scott LaFee,
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Max Planck, the great German physicist credited with founding quantum theory, reportedly once quipped, “Science advances one funeral at a time” – meaning that progress comes only when old thinking or old thinkers go.
That may seem obvious, but in a novel study by economists at the University of California San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the loss of a superstar scientist (someone at least a bit like Planck) can be surprisingly hard on collaborators left behind, who often experience a significant and permanent loss of productivity.
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