Research out of MIT’s Sloan School of Management finds that when the best of the best academic scientists die that their teams are significantly and permanently less productive.
From MIT’s press office:
The study was conducted with a panel of 8,220 scientists who had coauthored papers with a superstar scientist who subsequently died prematurely. The authors measured how collaborators’ scientific output — determined by publications, citations, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants — changed after the “extinction” of the star. Superstardom was assessed on the basis of several criteria, including funding, citations, and membership in the National Academy of Science.
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