顶尖科学家的“教父”每一个学习科学的学生都已注意到,作为一种社会现象,师承关系在培养科学顶尖人才方面有强大作用。“导师”这个词最早是由荷马开始用的,他在其作品《荷马史诗》中让出远门的奥德修斯将儿子忒勒玛科斯托付给“忠实而博学”的导师。在近世,导师这门职业才成为一个普遍现象,一切书刊,从学术刊物到连环漫画,都在称赞这门职业。到现在,导师观念已深入大众文化。《一个男人的生命四季》的作者之一莱文森是耶鲁大学的心理学家,他与同事们花了10年时间跟踪成人心理发展的模式(他们的研究,由于方法论原因,仅限于男性)。他们发现,强烈的、充满感情色彩的师生 The Godfather of Top Scientists Every student who studies science has noticed that as a social phenomenon, the relationship between teachers and students plays a strong role in cultivating top scientists in science. The term “mentor” was first used by Homer, and Odysseus, who made a long-awaited move in his work “Homer's epic”, paid his son Tellma Costa to “Faithful and Knowledgeable” tutor. In the modern world, the profession of mentors became a common phenomenon. All books and periodicals, from academic journals to comic books, praised the profession. Up to now, the mentor concept has gone deep into popular culture. One of the authors of The Four Seasons of a Man of Life, Levinson, a psychologist at Yale University, spent 10 years with his colleagues tracking the patterns of adult psychological development (their research, for methodological reasons, men's) . They found strong, emotionally charged teachers and students