I dunno, do they let attractive women into Math PhD programs?
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ProQuest does not list any dissertation under Whoopi’s birthname. Neither does Worldcat, FYIW. I suspect that Wendell Wagner’s right about unverified copied “facts”.
I suspect that “Fontaine” a character she has portrayed in her one-woman show(s), has somehow gotten conflated with her real life. Fontaine is a junkie with a Ph.D, which I believe is supposed to be in literature.
dropzone writes:
> I dunno, do they let attractive women into Math PhD programs?
I’ve known a few such women. By real-life standards, the women mathematicians I’ve known are about average for looks. I say real-life standards, because I suspect that someone is going to apply Hollyword standards. In a Hollywood movie, there are beautiful women, who it will turn out are jerks that you don’t want to hang around with, and there are the nice girls, who when they finally let their hair down and take off their glasses, are actually pretty good-looking. The beautiful women in Hollywood movies are more beautiful than anyone you will ever meet in real life. The merely nice girls are the ones that are about as beautiful as anyone you will ever meet in real life - you know, the ones who were the prettiest girls in your classes in high school and college, who would never consider dating you.
Really?
<<primps>> Can you introduce me, please?
Don’t forget his role as a member of Al Gore’s Vice Presidential Action Rangers!
I used to babysit for the kids of Alan Page, a pro football player for the Minnesota viking, and probably the only person to be a State Supreme Court judge and an inductee into the Football Hall of Fame. Nice guy, too.
StG
Cite please? 
(Also, did anyone else read that in the “No-Neck” voice from RHPS?)
Now, I’m not sure if his membership of a covert organization is really applicable to either his academic qualifications or his celebrity status.
JThunder writes:
> <<primps>> Can you introduce me, please?
What would be the point? Not only won’t they date me, but they barely notice my existence. Do you think that they’re going to be interested in some random person I’ve never met on message board I post to occasionally?
I was not surprised.
Everyone knows that Buckaroo Banzai has many talents.
Columnist and talking head George F. Will has a PhD in Political Science from Princeton.
Author and snappy dresser Tom Wolfe has a PhD in American Studies from Yale.
Tom Magliozzi (he’s either Click or Clack, I’m not sure, of “Car Talk” fame) has a doctorate in marketing and I believe an MBA.
Yes, but I can guarantee you that paper of hers has more citations than all of my papers put together. 
And would still have more citations than mine even if “Winnie” was not a co-author.
There were some very nice looking women grad students in my department when I was getting my PhD. IMHO two or three could have gone into modeling or acting, if they wanted to. Seriously! That was physics, not math, but close enough for present purposes. I didn’t hang out with math grad students much, but I’m sure there were some beauties there as well. The fact that all of the women were smart and nice just amplified their physical beauty.
Typo Knig writes:
> Yes, but I can guarantee you that paper of hers has more citations than all of
> my papers put together.
Really? Is there a way to look up the number of times that a paper is cited in other papers? How many times has the Chayes-McKellar-Winn paper been cited? How many papers have you written and how many times have they been cited? I had one paper published that I wrote as an undergraduate (although it wasn’t published till the year after I graduated), and I didn’t even make it to the Ph.D.
Introduce me! Introduce me, please.
Sexy Hollywood star Heddy Lamarr (from Austria with a biography that reads like a thriller) was regarded as something of Mathmatical genius and If I remember correctly did end up getting advanced degrees in mathamatics after her film career was over. Some of her inventions/theories still are (pun here) making waves.
Wiki links: Science Citation Index and, more generally, citation index. Also see Impact Factor. From the Citation Index wiki page: “In a landmark paper of 1965 [Ralph Garner at Drexel University] and Irving Sher showed the correlation between citation frequency and eminence in demonstrating that Nobel Prize winners published five times the average number of papers while their work was cited 30 to 50 times the average.”
I don’t have access to Science Citation Index myself, but any good University librarian should be able to help. Wiki says there’s a web site where one can make queires, but I need to get back to my real job.
My publications have at most a handful of citations. Probably less than 10 if you exclude later papers by my group referencing earlier ones. I worked in a couple of small areas in physics, and I never made a splash even in those small ponds. I left physics in '92 during the great science jobs crash.
I’ve lost contact with them myself, more’s the pity. 
Yes I’m married, but I’m not dead!
My location allows me to access the SCI database from the convenience of my desk. Danica’s paper has been cited twice.
That is not really correct. A J.S.D. (or S.J.D.) is a post-J.D. graduate degree with research and dissertation requirements similar to the Ph.D.
The ordinary law school program requirements by the A.B.A. require class attendence for the equivalent of three academic years, and has no provision for fitting a dissertation in. The research paper requirement you mention is in fact rather minimal and can be satisfied by simply taking a course that requires a final paper (usually 20-25 pages, though often less) rather than an exam.
The J.S.D. degree is quite rare in American legal education. Indeed, the other post J.D. law degree, the LL.M. is not particularly common for law professors, either. Most law professors only have an undergraduate bachelors and a J.D. (or LL.B., the prior designation of the degree, for some older professors), though it is now common to see law professors with a masters or other advanced degree in a related field.
This may be true, but Supreme Court Justice Byron White probably could have been in the Football Hall of Fame if he had kept on playing football.