Postdocs then and now.

My postdoc was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) as part of a program to attract foreigners to Japan. Alexei Kojevnikov's recently published book is titled I The Copenhagen Network: The Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective. i [1] During the period that Kojevnikov focuses on, 1920 to 1929, the postdoc had not achieved its subsequent status as an established career stage. "Separated from their research and scientific cohorts, these young scientists will have difficulty resuming their previous career paths."[2] What connects the quantum postdocs of the 1920s, my postdoc of the 1980s, and the postdocs of COVID-19?. [Extracted from the article]