Harvard vs. Stanford

White_Rabbit
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:52:45 +0000

“so it is unlikely that a biological sciences major would come face-to-face with a Nobel Prize winner in a class other than in Economics, Chemistry or Physics at the graduate level.”

2 or 3 Nobel Prize winners in Medicine taught freshman seminars of 12 students this fall. One of the Physics Professors with a Nobel teaches two classes a year. One is a freshman seminar with 12 students, and the other is a core open to anyone that averages 30 students. So at Harvard it happens often.