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Yet you also pointed out that 5 out of the 7 Caltech undergrad Nobel Prize winners studied at Caltech before the end of the war. I haven’t checked that fact, but I’ll take your word for it. So then, if that’s really true, then that would that the Caltech undergraduate program has actually become LESS productive after the war on both an absolute and a per-capita basis (because Caltech, like most American schools, got bigger after the war), right? If so, then why is that? I’ve heard Ben Golub remark before that Caltech has actually become a less rigorous school than it was in the past. Might that have something to do with it?
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<p>And then you have to consider that many people win Nobels at advanced ages because there is often a large time gap between significant discovery and the prize.</p>