L Josefsson | A. Mehler | F Vella | E J Wood
Discipline: education and teaching
During the twentieth century the preparation of students to conduct research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has grown from a small beginning to a major industry, producing about 1000 PhDs per year. During the early decades those few active investigators who were responsible for the growth of the field comprised a brotherhood of individuals well informed about each other's activities and aware of the status of research throughout the biochemical world. At that time the instruments and techniques were relatively simple, the rate of change in the field was slow and the judgments of the established investigators about advancing their apprentices to independence were generally similar. However, as a result of explosive growth and fragmentation into subspecialties, the thousands of scientists qualified to supervise professional training in biochemistry and molecular biology now comprise a heterogeneous group, and the informal methods of the past no longer serve to maintain similar standards among nations or even among institutions within a country.
ISSN 2719-1990 (Print)
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