Alexei Kojevnikov’s recently published book is titled The Copenhagen Network: Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective.11. A. Kojevnikov, Perspective, Springer (2020). During the period that Kojevnikov focuses on, 1920 to 1929, postdoc had not achieved its subsequent status as an established career stage. But it was necessary one. Funding for physics in Europe after World War ...