Talk:John Urschel

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This is just the start of the page for John Urschel - just ran out of time tonight to add any more, but I plan to continue to edit this over the coming weeks. We Are ... Penn State! Psubrian (talk) 07:09, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Activities outside of sports

This article should be expanded to cover his activities and accomplishments outside of athletics. For instance, he is an accomplished mathematician and has been published in numerous well-respected math publications. He also has written articles in sports publications. These journalistic and mathematic activities are worthy of inclusion in this article.SecretName101 (talk) 21:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure he should be called a mathematician, though. he has a masters degree, and he has published in low impact journals, but perhaps wait until he has a PhD and a career in mathematics before calling him a mathematician. I know many PhD students who have masters degrees, and who are published in good journals, but the convention is not to call them mathematicians, chemists, or psychologists until they have a doctoral degree and or a faculty position (or research position in industry). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.234.84.17 (talk) 21:36, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually not true. Meth cooks are called chemists, Stanton Friedman worked as a physicist with only a Master's degree and according to Michio Kaku, PhD it's quite common for a working physicist to not have a PhD., many of the physicists on the Manhattan Project hadn't yet completed their PhD's. "he has published in low impact journals" <- pompous ass alert. "(or research position in industry)" He's done work for the NSA. What thinkst the pompous ass community community about that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.213.142.170 (talk) 18:54, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]