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Record W1521564970

Doctorate Degrees Earned by Early Canadian Geologists

2003· article· en· W1521564970 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Gerard V. Middleton

Bibliographic record

VenueGeoscience Canada · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Science and Natural History
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGraduate studentsLibrary scienceHumanitiesPolitical scienceSociologyArtPedagogy
DOInot available

Abstract

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The first doctorate degrees in the geological sciences earned by Canadians were: Ph.D., Yale, 1871 by Bernard J.Harrington; Ph.D., Gottingen, 1877 by Joseph William Winthrop Spencer; Ph.D., Breslau, 1882 by Arthur P.Coleman; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1888 by Andrew C. Lawson; Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1892 by Frank Dawson Adams; and Ph.D., Toronto, 1900 by William A. Parks. McGill and the Geological Survey of Canada were the two institutions that most encouraged Canadians to seek graduate-level qualifications. Yale had an important influence on McGill: its Sheffield Scientific School influenced William Dawson to set up the McGill Department of Practical Science, and he appointed Harrington to be its head. In the 1860s and 1870s, the Yale school was the preeminent school in the United States for advanced study in geology and mineralogy, and the professors there encouraged many of their students to continue their studies in Germany: this advice was then taken up by McGill graduates, notably Spencer and Adams. By the 1890s graduate studies in geology had been developed to the doctorate level in many other American universities, so that travel to Germany was no longer necessary. Sommaire Les premiers diplomes de doctorat en sciences de la Terre decernes a des Canadiens sont les suivants : PhD, Yale, 1871 a Bernard J. Harrington; Ph.D., Gottingen, 1877 a Joseph William Winthrop Spencer; Ph.D., Breslau, 1882 a Arthur P. Coleman; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1888 a Andrew C. Lawson; Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1892 a Frank Dawson Adams; et Ph.D., Toronto, 1900 a William A. Parks. L'universite McGill ainsi que la Commission geologique du Canada sont les deux institutions qui ont le plus encourage les Canadiens a acquerir des qualifications universitaires de deuxieme cycle. L'universite Yale a eu une grande influence sur l'universite McGill - c'est l'Ecole scientifique de Sheffield (Sheffield Scientific School) qui a pousse William Dawson a creer le departement de sciences appliquees (Practical Science) de l'universite McGill, et c'est Harrington qui en a ete le premier directeur. De 1860 a 1870, l'ecole de Yale etait la plus importante ecole d'etudes avancees en geologie et en mineralogie aux Etats-Unis, et ses professeurs encourageaient plusieurs de leurs etudiants a poursuivre leurs etudes en Allemagne. Ainsi, plusieurs etudiants gradues de McGill ont suivi ce conseil, notamment Spencer et Adams. Et, vers les annees 1890, des programmes d'etudes graduees de doctorat avaient ete crees dans nombres d'universite setasuniennes, de sorte qu'il n'etait plus necessaire de s'expatrier vers l'Allemagne.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.155
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.161
Teacher spread0.147 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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