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Appendix

Table: Some famous mentors and the respective protégés in physics, chemistry, computer science,
biology and economics.

Mentor Protégé

Andy Van Dam (1938– ), professor of computer Famous American professor of computer science
science, who invented the hypertext system and author of the “Last Lecture: Achieving Your
Childhood Dream”, Randy Pausch (1960–2008)

Eminent physicist, J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear
Nobel laureate in physics physics, Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), Nobel
laureate in physics. In turn, Rutherford mentored
the future Nobel laureates Niels Bohr, James
Chadwick and Francis Aston, among others.

Harold Johnston (1920–2012), chemistry Dudley R. Herschbach (1932–), professor of
professor, Stanford University and University chemistry, Harvard University, Nobel laureate in
of California, Berkeley chemistry, 1986

Hartog Jacob Hamburger (1859–1924), a Albert Szent Gyorgi (1893–1986), Nobel laureate
physiology Professor at the University of in physiology and medicine, 1937
Groningen
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), British researcher H. Robert Horvitz (1947–), MIT professor and
and the Nobel laureate in physiology and Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine, 2002
medicine, 2002

Richard Stone (1913–1991), Economics Nobel Angus Deaton (1945–), Economics Nobel laureate,
laureate, 1984 2015

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