From an article on the decline of risk-taking and creativity in scientific research funding.
The average age to receive NIH research grants has gone from 38 in 1980 to 51 today.
From an article on the decline of risk-taking and creativity in scientific research funding.
The average age to receive NIH research grants has gone from 38 in 1980 to 51 today.
Not mentioned in that article but should be – the end of mandatory retirement, both in practice and legally at US universities. There was a special legal exemption until 1993 from age discrimination at universities. Now a greater percentage of faculty work past 80 than worked past 70 in 1990.