Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists

The following is an academic genealogy of theoretical physicists and is constructed by following the pedigree of thesis advisors. If an advisor did not exist, or if the field of physics is unrelated, an academic genealogical link can be constructed by using the university from which the theoretical physicist graduated.

The academic genealogy tree lists the physicists' PhD (or in some cases BA/MA)^[1] date and school, if known. Nobel Prize winners are indicated by ^†. If physicists are advised by mathematicians, their genealogy can be readily traced using the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Founding fathers

Max Planck

• Max Planck^† (Munich, 1879 under Alexander von Brill)
  • Max von Laue^† (Berlin, 1903)
    • Leo Szilard (Berlin, 1922)
  • Gustav Hertz^† (Berlin, 1911)
  • Walter Schottky (Berlin, 1912)
  • Walther Bothe^† (Berlin, 1914)

Albert Einstein

• Albert Einstein^† (Zurich, 1905 under Alfred Kleiner)
  • Ernst Straus (Columbia, 1950)

Arnold Sommerfeld

• Arnold Sommerfeld (Königsberg, 1891 under Ferdinand von Lindemann, see below)
  • Peter Debye^† (Munich, 1908)
  • Wilhelm Lenz (Munich, 1911)
    • Ernst Ising (Hamburg, 1924)
    • J. Hans D. Jensen^† (Hamburg, 1932)
      • Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller (Heidelberg, 1957)
        • Eric Lutz (Heidelberg, 1999)
          • Sebastian Deffner (Augsburg, 2011)
          • Andreas Dechant (Berlin, 2014)
          • Obinna Abah (Erlangen, 2015)
    • Hans-Jürgen Borchers (Hamburg, 1956)
  • Paul Peter Ewald (Munich, 1912)
    • Achilles Papapetrou (Stuttgart, 1935)
      • Hans-Jürgen Treder (Humboldt University of Berlin, 1956)
      • Rodolfo Gambini (Paris VI, year unknown)
  • Gregor Wentzel (Munich, 1921)
    • Markus E. Fierz (Zurich, 1936)
      • Klaus Hepp (Zurich, 1963; also under Res Jost)
        • Jürg Fröhlich (Zurich, 1972)
        • Konrad Osterwalder (1970, Zurich; also under Res Jost)
      • Sergio Albeverio (Zurich, 1967; also under Res Jost)
      • Frans Cerulus (Basel, 1954)
        • Raymond Gastmans (Leuven, 1968)
          • Antoine Van Proeyen (Leuven, 1978)
    • Felix Villars (Zurich, 1946)
      • Frank Tabakin (MIT, 1963)
        • T.-S. H. Lee (Pittsburgh, 1973)
          • Christopher G. Fasano (Chicago, 1989)
        • Cetin Savkli (Pittsburgh, 1996)
    • Res Jost (Zurich, 1946)
  • Wolfgang Pauli^† (Munich, 1921)
    • Nicholas Kemmer (Zurich, 1935; also under Gregor Wentzel)
      • Ron Shaw (1955, Cambridge)^[2]
      • Paul Taunton Matthews (Cambridge, 1950)
      • Richard Dalitz (Cambridge, 1950)
        • Stanley Mandelstam (Birmingham, 1956; also under Paul Matthews)
          • Joseph Polchinski (Berkeley, 1980)
          • Charles Thorn (Berkeley, 1971)
        • W. Noel Cottingham (UAB, 1960)
          • Anne-Christine Davis (Bristol, 1975)
            • João Magueijo (Cambridge, 1994)
      • Abdus Salam^† (Cambridge, 1951; also under Paul Matthews, see below)
  • Linus Pauling^† (PhD, Caltech, 1925; post-doctoral studies in Munich)
  • Hans A. Bethe^† (Munich, 1928)
    • Freeman Dyson (grad student at Cornell in 1947; no PhD)
    • John Irwin (Cornell, 1963)
    • Roman Jackiw (Cornell, 1966; co-adv. Kenneth G. Wilson, see below)^[3]
      • Rohana Wijewardhana (MIT, 1984)
      • Stefano Forte (MIT, 1987)^[3]
        • Joan Rojo (U Barcelona; co-adv. José Ignacio Latorre)
      • Daniel Kabat (MIT, 1993)^[3]
    • Robert Eugene Marshak (Cornell, 1939)
    • Gordon L. Shaw (Stanford, 1959)
      • Pran Nath (Stanford, 1964)
  • Paul Sophus Epstein (Munich, 1914)
    • Boris Podolsky (Caltech, 1928)
  • Werner Heisenberg^† (Munich, 1923)
    • Felix Bloch^† (Leipzig, 1928)
    • Rudolph E. Peierls (Leipzig, 1929)^[4]
      • Fred Hoyle (Cambridge, year unknown)
        • Cyril Domb (Cambridge, 1949)
          • Michael Fisher (King's College London, 1957)
            • David Robert Nelson (Cornell, 1975)
            • Gunduz Caginalp (Cornell, 1978)
      • John Bell (Birmingham, 1956; co-adv. Paul Matthews)
      • Edwin Ernest Salpeter (Birmingham, 1948)
      • Wladyslaw (Wladek) Swiatecki (Birmingham, 1950)^[5]
        • Joseph I. Kapusta (University of California, Berkeley, 1978)^[6]
      • Samuel W. MacDowell (Birmingham, 1958)
      • John F. Reading (Birmingham, 1964)^[4]
    • Edward Teller (Leipzig, 1929)
      • Marvin Leonard Goldberger (Chicago, 1948; co-adv. Enrico Fermi, see below)
        • Franz Gross (Princeton,1963)
      • Chen Ning Yang^† (Chicago, 1948; co-adv. Enrico Fermi)
      • Marshall Rosenbluth (Chicago, 1949)
      • Lincoln Wolfenstein
    • Hans Kastrup
      • Thomas Thiemann (Aachen, 1994)
      • Martin Bojowald (Aachen, 2000)
    • Reinhard Oehme (Göttingen, 1951)
    • Friedwardt Winterberg (Göttingen, 1955)
    • Peter Mittelstaedt (Göttingen, 1956)
      • Julian Barbour (Cologne, 1968)
  • Karl Bechert (Munich, 1925)
  • Herbert Fröhlich (Munich, 1930)
    • Sigurd Zienau (Liverpool, 1954)
      • Hugh Osborn (London, 1967)
        • Ian Jack (Cambridge, 1982)
        • Richard D Ball (Cambridge, 1986)
      • Paul Davies (London, 1970)
        • Edmund Copeland (Newcastle, 1985)
    • Sebastian Doniach (Liverpool, 1958)
  • Walter Franz (Munich, 1934)
    • L Tewordt (Munster, 1953)
      • Uwe Brandt (Hamburg, 1969)
        • H Leschke (Dortmund, 1975)
  • Heinrich Welker (Munich, 1936)

Max Born

• Max Born^† (Berlin, 1880 under Carl Runge, see below)
  • Friedrich Hund (Göttingen, 1922)
    • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Leipzig, 1933)
      • Karl-Heinz Höcker (Berlin, 1940)
    • Harry Lehmann (Jena, 1950)
      • Bert Schroer (Hamburg, 1963)
        • Bernd A. Berg (Berlin, 1977)
      • Klaus Pohlmeyer (Hamburg, 1966)
        • Karl-Henning Rehren (Freiburg, 1984)
    • Heinz Bilz (Frankfurt, 1958)^[7]
    • Dieter Langbein (Frankfurt, 1958)
  • Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (Göttingen, 1923)
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer^† (Göttingen, 1930)
  • Pascual Jordan (Göttingen, 1924)
  • Max Delbrück^† (Göttingen, 1930)
    • Carsten Bresch (Berlin, 1950)
  • Siegfried Flügge (Göttingen, 1933)
    • Achim Weiguny (Freiburg, 1963)
    • Gerhard Vollmer (Freiburg, 1971)
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer (Göttingen, 1927)
    • Melba Phillips (Berkeley, 1933)
    • Sidney Dancoff (Berkeley, 1936)
      • Sidney Drell (Urbana, 1949)
        • Steven Frautschi (Stanford, 1958)
          • Roger Dashen (Caltech, 1964)
          • Stephen D. Ellis (Caltech, 1971)
            • David Callaway (University of Washington, 1981)
              • Randall Furlong (Rockefeller, 1987)
    • Willis Lamb^† (Berkeley, 1938)
      • Marlan Scully (Yale, 1965)
        • Mikhail Lukin (Harvard, 1998)
    • Philip Morrison (Berkeley, 1940)
    • Robert Christy (Berkeley, 1941)
    • David Joseph Bohm (Berkeley, 1943)^[8]
      • Yakir Aharonov (Bristol, 1960)^[8]
  • Victor Frederick Weisskopf (Göttingen, 1931) (Born was formally advisor, but thesis work was done under co-advisor Eugene Wigner—see below—as Born was sick)^[9]
    • J. D. Jackson (MIT, 1949)
      • Gordon L. Kane (Illinois U., Urbana, 1963)
        • David R. Richards (University of Michigan, 1971)
        • Howard Haber (University of Michigan, 1978)
          • Marco Diaz (UC Santa Cruz, 1992)
          • Heather Logan (UC Santa Cruz, 1999)
        • Chien-Peng Yuan (University of Michigan)
          • Csaba Balazs (Michigan State University, 1999)
          • Timothy M. P. Tait (Michigan State University, 1999)
        • J. Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz (University of Michigan, 1989)
        • Robert Garisto, (University of Michigan, 1992)
        • James D. Wells (University of Michigan, 1995)
          • Brandon Murakami (UC Davis, 2002)
          • Shrihari Gopalakrishna (UC Davis, 2002)
        • Christopher Kolda (University of Michigan, 1995)
        • Graham Kribs (University of Michigan, 1998)
        • Lian-Tao Wang (University of Michigan, 2002)
    • F. L. Friedman (MIT, 1949)
      • William Tobocman (MIT, 1953)
        • Anthony J. Baltz (Case Western Reserve, 1971)
    • Murray Gell-Mann^† (MIT, 1951)^[10]
      • Kenneth G. Wilson^† (Caltech,1961)^[10]
        • Michael E. Peskin (Cornell U., 1978)^[11]
          • Emil Martinec (Cornell, 1984)
          • Matthew J. Strassler (Stanford, 1993)
          • Jonathan L. Feng (Stanford, 1995)
      • Sidney R. Coleman (Caltech, 1962)^[10]
        • Leonard Parker (Harvard, 1967)
        • Stephen B. Fels (Harvard, 1968)
        • Arnold J. Cantor (Harvard, 1970)
        • David J. Griffiths (Harvard, 1970)^[12]
        • John E. Mansfield (Harvard, 1970)
        • Anthony Zee (Harvard, 1970)
        • Lawrence R. Thebaud (Harvard, 1971)
        • Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971; co-adv. Julian Schwinger, see below)
        • Erick J. Weinberg (Harvard, 1973)
          • Kimyeong Lee (Columbia, 1987)
        • James P. Butler (Harvard, 1974)
        • H. David Politzer^† (Harvard, 1974)^[13]
        • Eldad Gildener (Harvard, 1975)
        • Frank De Luccia (Harvard, 1979)
        • Lee Smolin (Harvard, 1979; co-adv. Stanley Deser)^[13]
          • Viqar Husain (Yale, 1990)
          • Seth Major (Penn State, 1997)
          • Eli Hawkins (Penn State, 1999)
          • Mohammad Ansari (Waterloo, 2008)
        • Gerald E. Sobelman (Harvard, 1979)
        • Stephen Parke (Harvard, 1980)
        • Fred Posner (Harvard, 1980)
        • Bernard Grossman (Harvard, 1981)
        • Gregory W. Moore (Harvard, 1985)
        • Jacques Distler (Harvard, 1987)^[13]
        • John March-Russell (Harvard, 1990; co-adv. Frank Wilczek, see below)
        • Stelios M. Smirnakis (Harvard, 1997)
        • Nathan Salwen (Harvard, 2001)
      • James Hartle (Caltech, 1964)
      • Rodney Crewther (Caltech, 1971)
      • Christopher T. Hill (Caltech, 1977)
      • Barton Zwiebach (Caltech, 1983)^[10]
    • Kerson Huang (1953, MIT)
  • Herbert S. Green (Edinburgh, 1947)
    • Ian Ellery McCarthy (Adelaide, 1956)
  • Cheng Kaijia (Edinburgh, 1948)

Niels Bohr

• Niels Bohr^† (Copenhagen, 1911 under Christian Christiansen)
  • Hans Kramers (Leiden, 1919)
    • Tjalling Koopmans^† (Leiden, 1936)
    • Frederik Belinfante (Leiden, 1939)
      • Jiaxian Deng (Purdue University, 1950; co-advised by Dirk ter Haar)
    • Dirk ter Haar (Leiden, 1948)
      • Anthony James Leggett^† (Oxford, 1964)
        • Amir Caldeira (University of Sussex, 1980)
        • Jan Engelbrecht (Urbana-Champaign, 1993)

Lev Landau

• Lev Landau^† (Leningrad State University, 1927, advisor unknown)
  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov^† (Institute for Physical Problems, 1951)
  • Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer (Kharkiv Polytechnical University, 1936)
    • Sergey S. Sannikov (Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, 1963)
      • Marcoen Cabbolet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2011)
    • Michail Petrovich Rekalo (Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, 1968)
      • Steven Duplij (Kharkiv National University, 1983)
  • Boris L. Ioffe
    • Mikhail A. Shifman
  • Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (Institute for Physical Problems, 1962)^[14]

Hermann von Helmholtz

• Hermann von Helmholtz (Berlin, 1842 under Johannes Peter Müller)
  • Heinrich Friedrich Weber (PhD, Jena, 1865; post-doctoral studies under Hermann von Helmholt at Berlin (1871–1874))
  • Henry Augustus Rowland (bachelor's at Rensselaer, 1870; graduate studies under Hermann von Helmholt at Berlin (1875–1876);^[15][16][17] no Ph.D.^[18])
    • Edwin Hall (Johns Hopkins, 1880)^[18]
    • Harry Fielding Reid (Johns Hopkins, 1885)
      • Charles E. Mendenhall (Johns Hopkins, 1898)
        • Raymond Thayer Birge (Wisconsin-Madison, 1913)
          • Edward Condon (Berkeley, 1926)
      • Frederick A. Saunders (Johns Hopkins, 1898)
    • Joseph Sweetman Ames (Johns Hopkins, 1890)^[18]
      • August Herman Pfund (Johns Hopkins, 1906)^[18]
        • Richard Threlkeld Cox (Johns Hopkins, 1924)^[18]
        • Haldan Keffer Hartline^† (M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1927)^[18]
      • William F. Meggers (Johns Hopkins, 1917)
        • Otto Laporte (Munich, 1924)
        • Curtis J. Humphreys (Michigan, 1928)
      • Gregory Breit (Johns Hopkins, 1921)
        • Charles Kittel (Wisconsin-Madison, 1941)
          • Albert Overhauser (Berkeley, 1951)
            • Henry Ehrenreich (Cornell, 1955)
              • Lawrence M. Schwartz (Harvard, 1971)
              • Kathryn Liebermann Levin (Harvard, 1971)
                • Costas Soukoulis (Chicago, 1978)
              • Charles Daniel Gelatt (Harvard, 1974)
              • Jacquelyn Ann Weiss (Harvard, 1975)
              • Leendert Marinus Huisman (Harvard, 1979)
              • Anders Carlsson (Harvard, 1981)
              • David Ling (Harvard, 1981)
              • Kenneth Hass (Harvard, 1984)
              • Brond Larson (Harvard, 1988)
            • John Joseph Hopfield (Cornell, 1958)
              • Bertrand Halperin (Berkeley, 1965)
                • Daniel S. Fisher (Harvard, 1979)
                • Catherine Kallin (Harvard, 1984)
                • Steven H. Simon (Harvard, 1995)
                • Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard, 2003)
            • Edward Charles McIrvine (Cornell, 1959)
            • Lonnie Van Zandt (Harvard, 1964)
          • Morrel H. Cohen (Berkeley, 1952)
            • James C. Phillips (Chicago, 1956)
              • Marvin L. Cohen (Chicago, 1964)
                • John D. Joannopoulos (Berkeley, 1974)
                  • Robert B. Laughlin^† (MIT, 1979)
                  • David H. Vanderbilt (MIT, 1981)
                  • Rodrigo B. Capaz (MIT, 1996)
                  • Shanhui Fan (MIT, 1998)
                  • Steven G. Johnson (MIT, 2001)
                  • Evan J. Reed (MIT, 2003)
                  • Michelle L. Povinelli (MIT, 2004)
                • James R. Chelikowsky (Berkeley, 1975)
                • Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (Berkeley, 1976)
                  • Che-Ting Chan (Berkeley, 1985)
                • Kai-Ming Ho (Berkeley, 1978)
                • Jisoon Ihm (Berkeley, 1980)
            • Pabitra N. Sen (Chicago, 1972)
            • David L. Johnson (Chicago, 1974)
          • Alan M. Portis (Berkeley, 1953)
            • Alan J. Heeger^† (Berkeley, 1961)
            • N. Phuan Ong (Berkeley, year unknown)
          • Raymond L. Orbach (Berkeley, 1960)
            • Gerald B. Arnold (UCLA, 1977) (co-adv. Theodore David Holstein)
      • Frederick Sumner Brackett (Johns Hopkins, 1922)
  • Heinrich Hertz (PhD, Berlin, 1880)
  • Wilhelm Wien (PhD, Berlin, 1886)
  • Arthur Gordon Webster (Berlin, 1890)
    • Albert Potter Wills (Clark, 1897)
      • Isidor Isaac Rabi^† (Columbia, 1927)^[19]
        • Julian Schwinger^† (Columbia, 1939)^[19][20]
          • Roy Glauber^† (Harvard, 1949)
          • Walter Kohn^† (Harvard, 1948)
          • Bryce DeWitt (Harvard, 1950)^[20]
            • Donald Marolf (Texas, 1992)
          • Michael Lieber (Harvard, 1959)
          • Abraham Klein (Harvard, 1950)
            • Benjamin W. Lee (University of Pennsylvania, 1960)
              • Burt Ovrut (Ph.D., Chicago, 1978)
          • Gordon Baym (Harvard, 1960)
          • Ben R. Mottelson^† (Harvard, 1950)
            • Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson (Lund U., 1959)
          • Luís María Garrido Arilla (1955)^[20]
          • Charles M. Sommerfield (Harvard, 1957)^[20]
            • Howard Georgi (Yale, 1971)^[21]
              • Edward Farhi (Harvard, 1978)
              • John Hagelin (Harvard, 1981)
              • Lawrence J. Hall (Harvard, 1981)
                • Steve Hsu (Berkeley, 1991)
                • Nima Arkani-Hamed (Berkeley, 1997)
                  • Thomas Gregoire (Berkeley, 2003)
              • Sally Dawson (Harvard, 1981)
              • David B. Kaplan (Harvard, 1985)
              • Lisa Randall (Harvard, 1987)
                • Csaba Csáki (1997)
                • Matthew D. Schwartz (Princeton, 2003)
              • Andrew G. Cohen
              • Ann Nelson
                • David E. Kaplan (U. Washington, 1999)
          • Lawrence Paul Horwitz (Harvard, 1954)
            • Stuart Raby (Tel Aviv, 1976)
              • Tomas Blazek (Ohio State, 1996)
              • Arash Mafi (Ohio State, 2001)
              • Radovan Dermisek (Ohio State, 2002)
          • Sheldon Lee Glashow^† (Harvard, 1959)^[20]
          • Lowell S. Brown (Harvard, 1961)^[22]
          • Kalyana T. Mahanthappa (Harvard, 1961)^[23]
          • Norman J. M. Horing (Harvard, 1964)^[24]
          • Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971; co-adv. Sidney Coleman)
            • William Daniel Phillips^†
            • David E. Pritchard
        • Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.^† (Columbia, 1940)
          • Fritz Rohrlich (Harvard, 1948)^[25]
            • Robert E. Pugh (Iowa, 1963)
              • Nathan Isgur (Toronto, 1974)
                • Simon Capstick (Toronto, 1986)
                • Eric S. Swanson (Toronto, 1991)
                  • Olga Lakhina (Pittsburgh, 2006)
                  • Pok Man Lo (Pittsburgh, 2011)
        • Martin Lewis Perl^† (Columbia, 1955)
          • Samuel Chao Chung Ting^† (Michigan, 1962; also advised by Lawrence W. Jones)

Mayflower branches

Enrico Fermi

• Enrico Fermi^† (Laurea, Pisa, 1922 under Luigi Puccianti)^[26]
  • James Rainwater^† (1946, Manhattan Project)
  • Chen Ning Yang^† (Chicago, 1948; co-adv. Edward Teller)^[27]
  • Jack Steinberger^† (Chicago, 1948)
    • Eric L. Schwartz (Columbia, 1973)
  • Geoffrey Chew (Chicago, 1948)^[26][27]
    • David J. Gross^† (Berkeley, 1966)^[27]
      • Frank Wilczek^†[28]
        • John March-Russell (Harvard, 1990; co-advisor Sidney Coleman, see above)
        • Chetan Nayak (Princeton, 1996)
        • Finn Larsen (Princeton, 1996)
        • Maulik K. Parikh (Princeton, 1998)
      • Edward Witten (1976, Princeton)
        • Jonathan Bagger (1983, Princeton)
        • Cumrun Vafa (1985, Princeton)
        • Xiao-Gang Wen (1987, Princeton)
        • Dror Bar-Natan (1991, Princeton)
        • Shamit Kachru (1994, Princeton)
        • Eva Silverstein (1996, Princeton)
        • Sergei Gukov (2001, Princeton)
    • John H. Schwarz (Berkeley, 1966)
      • Anthony Ichiro Sanda (Princeton, 1969)
      • Cosmas Zachos (Caltech, 1979)
      • Michael R. Douglas (Caltech, 1988)
      • Gerald B. Cleaver (Caltech, 1993)
        • John T. Perkins (Baylor, 2005)
        • Matthew B. Robinson (Baylor, 2009)
      • Augusto Sagnotti (Caltech, 1983)
  • Tsung-Dao Lee^† (Chicago, 1950)^[26][27]
    • Richard J. Drachman (Columbia, 1958)
    • Norman H. Christ (Columbia, 1966)
    • Carl E. Carlson (Columbia, 1968)
    • King Yuen B. Ng (Columbia, 1969)
    • Ralph Linsker (Columbia, 1972)
    • Oleg Tchernyshyov (Columbia, 1998)
  • Willem Van Rensselaer Malkus (Chicago, 1950)^[26]
  • Sam Treiman (Chicago, 1952; co-advisor John Simpson)^[29]
    • Stephen L. Adler (1964)^[29]
    • Curtis Callan (1964)^[29]
      • Peter Woit (Princeton, 1985)
      • Igor R. Klebanov (1986)
        • Steven S. Gubser (1998)
      • Juan Maldacena (1996, Princeton)
    • Steven Weinberg^† (Princeton, 1957)^[29]
      • Lay Nam Chang (UC Berkeley, 1967)
      • Claude Bernard (Harvard, 1976)^[30]
      • John Preskill (Harvard, 1980)
        • Alexios Polychronakos (Caltech, 1987)
        • Elias Kiritsis (Caltech, 1988)
      • Bob Holdom (Harvard 1981)
        • John Terning (Toronto 1990)
      • Gerald Gilbert (Texas, 1986)
      • Fernando Quevedo (Texas, 1986)
      • Scott S. Willenbrock (Texas, 1986)
        • Zack Sullivan (Urbana-Champaign 1998)
      • Ubirajara van Kolck (Texas, 1993)
      • Rafael Lopez-Mobilia (Texas, 1995)
    • K. Fujikawa (1970)

Friedrich Hasenöhrl

• Friedrich Hasenöhrl (Vienna, 1897 under Franz S. Exner)
  • Erwin Schrödinger^† (Vienna, 1910)
  • Hans Thirring (Vienna, 1911)
    • Walter E. Thirring (Vienna, 1925)
      • Mario Bunge (UNLP, 1952)
    • Walter E. Thirring (Vienna, 1949)
      • Peter G. O. Freund (Vienna, 1960)
        • Hsiung Chia Tze (Chicago, 1972)
        • Jorge Crispim Romão (Chicago, 1979)
        • Rafael I. Nepomechie (Chicago, 1982)
        • James T. Wheeler (Chicago, 1986)
  • Karl Herzfeld (Vienna, 1914)
    • Walter Heitler (Munich, 1926)
    • John A. Wheeler (Johns Hopkins, 1933)
      • Richard P. Feynman^† (Princeton, 1942)
        • George Zweig (Caltech, 1963)
        • Thomas Curtright (Caltech, 1977)
        • Stephen Wolfram (Caltech, 1979)
      • Arthur Wightman (Princeton, 1949)
        • Arthur Jaffe (Princeton, 1966)
          • Clifford Taubes (Harvard, 1980)
        • Lawrence Schulman (Princeton, 1967)
        • Jerrold Marsden (Princeton, 1968)
        • Barry Simon (Princeton, 1970)
        • Rafael de la Llave (Princeton, 1983)
      • Hugh Everett (Princeton, 1956)
      • Charles Misner (Princeton, 1957)
      • John R. Klauder (Princeton, 1959)
      • Kip Thorne (Princeton, 1965)
        • William H. Press (Caltech, 1973)
          • Stephon Alexander (Harvard, 1983; co-adv. Arthur Jaffe)
        • Saul Teukolsky (Caltech, 1973)
      • Robert Geroch (Princeton, 1967)
        • Abhay Ashtekar (Chicago, 1974)
      • Jacob D. Bekenstein (Princeton, 1972)
      • Claudio Bunster (Princeton, 1973)
      • Norbert Straumann (Zurich, 1961)
        • Ruth Durrer (Zurich, 1988)

Eugene Wigner

• Eugene Wigner^† (Berlin, 1925 under Michael Polanyi)
  • John Bardeen^† (Princeton, 1936)
    • John Robert Schrieffer^† (Illinois, 1957)
  • Victor Weisskopf (Göttingen, 1931; co-adv. Max Born, see above)
  • Edwin Thompson Jaynes (Princeton, 1948)
  • Abner Shimony (Princeton, 1962)
  • Marcos Moshinsky

Hideki Yukawa

• Hideki Yukawa^† (Kyoto, 1938 under Kajuro Tamaki)
  • Donald R. Yennie
    • Stanley J. Brodsky (Minnesota, 1964)
      • Peter LePage (Stanford, 1978)
      • Jonathan Sapirstein (Stanford, 1979)
    • Thomas W. Appelquist (Cornell, 1968)
      • J. Terrance Goldman (Harvard, 1973)
      • Michael Dine (Yale, 1978)
      • Anthony Carmine Longhitano (Yale, 1981)
      • Dimitra Karabali (Yale, 1986)
      • Piotr Karasinski (Yale, 1987)
      • Daniel Joseph Nash (Yale, 1989)
      • Tatsu Takeuchi (Yale, 1989)
      • Opher Shapira (Yale, 1990)
      • George Triantaphyllou (Yale, 1993)
      • Myckola Schwetz (Yale, 1997)
      • Zhiyong Duan (Yale, 2001)
      • Ho-Ung Yee (Yale, 2003)
      • Yang Bai (Yale, 2007)
    • Geoffey T. Bodwin (Cornell, 1978)
  • Masako Bando (Kyoto, 1966)

Modern European and other branches

Ralph H. Fowler

• Ralph H. Fowler^† (MA, Cambridge, 1915 under Archibald Vivian Hill)
  • Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac^† (PhD, Cambridge, 1926)
    • Richard J. Eden (Cambridge 1951; co-adv. Werner Heisenberg)
      • Michael B. Green (Cambridge, 1970)
    • John C. Polkinghorne (Cambridge, 1955)
      • Tom Kibble (University of Edinburgh, 1958)
        • Mark B. Hindmarsh (Imperial College, 1986)
          • Dimitris P. Skliros (University of Sussex, 2011)
      • Ian Gibson Halliday (Cambridge, 1964)
        • Gerald V. Dunne (Imperial, 1988)
    • Dennis W. Sciama (Cambridge, 1953)
      • George Ellis (Cambridge, 1964)
        • Jeff Murugan (Cape Town)
          • Nitin Rughoonauth (Cape Town, 2014)
      • Antony Valentini (ISAS, 1992)
        • Roy Maartens (Cape Town, 1980)
      • Stephen Hawking (Oxford, 1966)
        • Malcolm Perry (Cambridge, 1978)
          • Tibra Ali (Cambridge, 2002)
      • Martin John Rees (Cambridge, 1967)
        • Roger Blandford (Cambridge, 1974)
      • Brandon Carter (Cambridge, 1968)
        • Patrick Peter (Paris, 1991)
        • Xavier Martin (Paris, 1995)
        • Reinhard Prix (Paris, 2000)
        • Nicolas Chamel (Paris, 2004)
      • Gary Gibbons (Cambridge, 1973)
      • James Binney (Oxford, 1975)
        • Brian Greene (Oxford, 1987; co-adv. Graham G. Ross)
      • John D. Barrow (Oxford, 1977)
      • David Deutsch (Oxford, 1978)
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar^† (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1933)
    • Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Chicago, 1964)
  • Garrett Birkhoff
  • Maurice Pryce
    • John Clive Ward
  • Noel B. Slater
  • John Lennard-Jones

Abdus Salam

• Abdus Salam^† (Cambridge, 1951 under Nicholas Kemmer and Paul Matthews, see above)^[31]
  • Ron Shaw (Cambridge, 1955)^[31]
  • Yuval Ne'eman (Imperial College, London, 1961)^[31]
  • Ray Streater (Imperial College, London, 1960)^[31]
  • Christopher Isham (Imperial College, London, 1969)
    • Fotini Markopoulou
  • John Moffat (Cambridge, 1958)^[31]
  • Michael Duff^[31]
  • Ali Chamseddine (Imperial College, 1976)^[31]
  • William R. Franklin (University of London, 1976)^[31]
  • Riazuddin (NUST, 1959)^[31]

Léon Van Hove

• Léon Van Hove (Université libre de Bruxelles, 1946 under Théophile de Donder)
  • Martinus Veltman^† (Utrecht, 1963)
    • Gerardus 't Hooft^† (Utrecht, 1972)
      • Herman Verlinde (Utrecht, 1988)
      • Robbert Dijkgraaf (Utrecht, 1989)
    • Bernard de Wit (Utrecht, 1973)
      • Erik Verlinde (Utrecht, 1988)

Ancient lineages

The Max Born academic genealogy leads to Carl Friedrich Gauss and then on to Otto Mencke and ultimately to Friedrich Leibniz.

The Sommerfeld genealogy leads to Felix Klein and then to Otto Mencke (via Gauss) and Gottfried Leibniz. The Leibniz heritage, however, is due to the premature death of Klein's advisor, Julius Plücker, which forced a second supervisor for the final examination, namely Rudolf Lipschitz.

Another advisor line in continental Europe descends from Leibniz via among others, Poisson, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and Euler. The Leibniz lineage proceeds from Johannes von Gmunden.

The lineage of the two main American branches (the Henry Augustus Rowland branch and the Arthur Gordon Webster branch—see above) proceeds via von Helmholtz from Gerard van Swieten and his mentor Herman Boerhaave and ultimately from Jacques Dubois and Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.

Otto Mencke

• Otto Mencke (colleague of Leibniz;^[32] PhD, Leipzig, 1665 under Jakob Thomasius)
  • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen^[32] (PhD, Leipzig, 1685)
    • Christian August Hausen^[32] (Dr.phil., Wittenberg, 1713)
      • Abraham Kästner^[32] (PhD, Leipzig, 1739)
        • Georg Lichtenberg (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1765)
          • Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1800; also advised by Kästner)
        • Johann Tobias Mayer (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1773; also advised by Lichtenberg)
          • Enno Heeren Dirksen (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1820; also advised by Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut)
            • Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (PhD, Berlin, 1825)
              • Otto Hesse (Dr.phil., Königsberg, 1840)
                • Gustav Kirchhoff (Dr. phil., Königsberg, 1847)
                  • Loránd von Eötvös (PhD, Heidelberg, 1870)
        • Johann Friedrich Pfaff (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1786)
          • Carl Friedrich Gauss (PhD, Helmstedt, 1799)
            • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (honorary doctorate, Göttingen, 1810)
              • Heinrich Scherk (PhD, Berlin, 1823; also advised by Brandes)
                • Ernst Kummer (PhD, Halle-Wittenberg, 1831)
            • Christian Ludwig Gerling (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1812)
              • Julius Plücker (PhD, Marburg, 1823)
                • C. Felix Klein (Dr.phil., Bonn, 1868; also advised by Rudolf Lipschitz—see below—the last year)
                  • Ferdinand von Lindemann (PhD, 1873, Erlangen)
                    • Arnold Sommerfeld (Dr.phil., Königsberg, 1891; see above)
                    • David Hilbert (Dr.phil., Königsberg, 1885)
                    • Martin Kutta (Dr.phil., Munich, 1900)
                    • Hermann Minkowski (Dr.phil., Königsberg, 1885)
            • Christoph Gudermann (Lehrerexamen, Göttingen, 1823; honorary doctorate, Berlin, 1832)
              • Karl Weierstrass (honorary doctorate, Königsberg, 1854)
                • Carl Runge (Dr.phil., Berlin, 1880; also advised by Kummer)
                  • Max Born^† (Dr.phil., Göttingen, 1906; see above)

Erhard Weigel

• Erhard Weigel (PhD, Leipzig, 1650 under the physicist Philipp Müller)
  • Gottfried Leibniz (Erhard Weigel was Leibniz's academic advisor in mathematics (summer school, Jena, 1663); Leibniz was also advised by Jakob Thomasius (BA in philosophy, Leipzig, 1662 advisor), Bartholomäus Leonhard von Schwendendörffer (Dr.jur., Altdorf, 1666 advisor), and Christiaan Huygens (mathematics and physics advisor); he was also MA in philosophy, Leipzig, 1664, BA in law, Leipzig, 1665, and Dr.phil., Leipzig, 1666 under unknown supervisors)
    • Jacob Bernoulli (distant—via mail; also influenced by Nicolas Malebranche; two doctorates: Theol.Dr., Basel, 1676 under Peter Werenfels and Dr.hab.Sci., Basel, 1684 (adviror unknown))
      • Johann Bernoulli (Dr.med., Basel: published in 1690, submitted in 1694)
        • Leonhard Euler (PhD, Basel, 1726)
          • Joseph-Louis Lagrange (distant, via mail; also advised by Giovanni Battista Beccaria)
            • Siméon Poisson (diploma, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 1800; also advised by Pierre-Simon Laplace)
              • Michel Chasles (diploma, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 1814)
                • Gaston Darboux (diploma, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1866)
            • Joseph Fourier (diploma, École Normale Supérieure, year unknown)
              • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (honorary doctorate, Bonn, 1827; also advised by Poisson)
                • Leopold Kronecker (Dr.phil., Berlin, 1845; also advised by Johann Franz Encke, a student of Gauss—see above)
                • Rudolf Lipschitz (Dr.phil., Berlin, 1853)
                  • C. Felix Klein (Dr.phil., Bonn, 1868; also advised by Julius Plücker—see above)

John Cranke

• John Cranke (MA, Cambridge, 1774 prob. under Thomas Postlethwaite)
  • Thomas Jones (MA, Cambridge, 1782; co-mentor Thomas Postlethwaite)
    • Adam Sedgwick (MA, Cambridge, 1811; co-mentor John Dawson)
      • William Hopkins (MA, Cambridge, 1830)
        • William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (BA, Cambridge, 1845)
        • Peter Guthrie Tait (BA, Cambridge, 1852)
        • George Gabriel Stokes (MA, Cambridge, 1841)
        • Francis Galton (MA, Cambridge, 1847)
        • Isaac Todhunter (MA, Cambridge, 1848)
        • James Clerk Maxwell (MA, Cambridge, 1854)
        • Edward John Routh (MA, Cambridge, 1857; co-mentor Isaac Todhunter)
          • John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh^† (MA, Cambridge, 1868)
            • J. J. Thomson^† (MA, Cambridge, 1883; co-mentor John Strutt)
              • William Henry Bragg^† (MA, Cambridge, 1885)
                • William Lawrence Bragg^† (MA, Cambridge, 1912)
              • Charles Thomson Rees Wilson^† (BA, Cambridge, 1892)
              • Ernest Rutherford^† (MA, Canterbury, 1893; graduate studies at Cambridge; DSc, New Zealand, 1900)
                • Henry DeWolf Smyth (PhD, Cambridge, 1923)
                  • Rubby Sherr (PhD, Princeton, 1938)
                    • Charles Glashausser (PhD, Princeton)
                      • Robert Kaita (PhD, Princeton)
                        • Gregory Hammett (PhD, Princeton)
                  • Kenneth Bainbridge (PhD, Princeton, 1929)
                    • Edward Mills Purcell^† (PhD, Harvard)
                      • Nicolaas Bloembergen^† (PhD, Leiden, 1948; graduate studies at Harvard)
                        • Peter Pershan (PhD, Harvard, 1960)
                      • George Pake (PhD, Harvard, 1948)
                      • Charles Pence Slichter (PhD, Harvard, 1949)
              • Owen Willans Richardson^† (ScD, London, 1904)
                • Clinton Davisson^† (PhD, Princeton, 1911)
                • Karl Taylor Compton (PhD, Princeton, 1912)
              • Charles Glover Barkla^† (Liverpool alumnus. c. 1899; advanced studies at Cambridge)
              • Francis William Aston^† (Birmingham alumnus. c. 1903; advanced studies at Cambridge)
              • George Paget Thomson^† (Cambridge alumnus, c. 1914)
                • Ishrat Hussain Usmani (PhD, London, 1939)

See also

• List of theoretical physicists

References

External links

• Academic Genealogy of Physics
• Notre Dame Physics Genealogy index
• Spanish school academic genealogy list
• Lineage of Kamerlingh Onnes and Bloembergen
• Lineage of Lorentz and Van der Waals
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
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