Genealogy Of Theoretical Physicists

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If physicists are advised by mathematicans, their genealogy can be readily traced using the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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FOUNDING FATHERS

Arnold Sommerfeld (Königsberg, 1891, v. Lindeman)

--- Peter Debye (Munich, 1908)

--- Wolfgang Pauli (1921, Munich)

-- Nicholas Kemmer

- Ron Shaw (1955, Cambridge)

- Sergio Albeverio

- Klaus Hepp (1963,Zurich, also Res Jost) {Link without Title}

Jürg Fröhlich {Link without Title}

Konrad Osterwalder (1970 Zurich, also Res Jost) {Link without Title}

--- Hans A. Bethe (1928, Munich?)

-- Robert Eugene Marshak (1939?!, Cornell)

-- Roman Jackiw (1966, Cornell, Hans A. Bethe, & K. G. Wilson ) {Link without Title}

- Stefano Forte (1987 MIT)

Joan Rojo (U Barcelona, Coadv. J.I. Latorre)

-- John Irwin (1963, Cornell)

--- P S Epstein

-- Boris Podolsky (1928 Caltech)

--- Werner Heisenberg (1923, Munich)

-- Felix Bloch (1928 Leipzig)

-- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga ?? (Leipzig & Tokio, 1939)

-- Rudolph E. Peierls

- John Bell (Birmingham, 1956) (coadv. Paul Matthews)

- Edwin Ernest Salpeter (Birmingham, 1948) {Link without Title}

-- Edward Teller (1929 Leipzig)

- Marvin Leonard Goldberger (Chicago, 1948, coadv Fermi?)

Franz Gross (Princeton,1963)

- Chen Ning Yang (Chicago, 1948)(coadv Fermi?)

- Lincoln Wolfenstein {Link without Title}

-- Hans Kastrup

- Martin Bojowald (Aachen, 2000)

-- Reinhard Oehme

-- Friedwardt Winterberg (Göttingen, 1955)

--- '' Karl Herzfeld ''

--- Walter Franz (Munich, 1934)

-- L Tewordt (Munster, 1953)

- Uwe Brandt (Hamburg, 1969)

H Leschke (Dortmund, 1975)

--- Gregor Wentzel

-- Markus E. Fierz (Zürich, 1933(?))

-- Res Jost (Zürich, 1946)

Max Born (1880, Berlin, Carl Runge)

--- Friedich Hund (Göttingen 1922)

--- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1930, Göttingen)

--- Julius Robert Oppenheimer (Göttingen 1927)

-- Willis Lamb (1938, Berkeley)

-- Philip Morrison (1940, Berkeley)

-- David Bohm (1943, Berkeley)

- Yakir Aharonov (1960, Bristol) {Link without Title}

--- Victor Friedrich Weisskopf (Göttingen 1931) {Link without Title} coadv. Wigner ?

-- J. D. Jackson (MIT, 1949)

- Gorden L. Kane (Illinois U., Urbana, 1963)

-- F. L. Friedman (MIT, 1949)

-- Murray Gell-Mann (MIT, 1951) {Link without Title}

- Kenneth G. Wilson (Caltech,1961)

Michael E. Peskin (Cornell U., 1978) {Link without Title}

- '' Glashow ''??

- Sidney Coleman {Link without Title}

Anthony Zee (1970)

David J. Griffiths (Harvard, 1970) {Link without Title}

Erik Weinberg (1973)

H. David Politzer (1974, Harvard) {Link without Title}

Lee Smolin (coadv. Stanley (?) ) {Link without Title}

J Distler (,Harvard) {Link without Title}

-- Kerson Huang (1953, MIT) {Link without Title}

--- (genetic)

-- Olivia Newton-John (genetic, degree pending)

Niels Bohr (Copenhagen, 1911, C. Christiansen)

Lev Landau (Leningrad U, 1927)

--- Boris L. Ioffe

-- Mikhail A. Shifman

Max Planck (Munich, 1879)

--- Leo Szilard

MAYFLOWER BRANCHES, AND OTHER (MAYFLOWER?)

I. I. Rabi (Columbia, 1927, A. Willis (waw AG Webster, waw von Helmholtz ))

--- Julian Schwinger (Columbia, 1939)

-- Bryce DeWitt (Harvard, 1950)

-- Ben R. Mottelson (Harvard?, 1950)

- Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson ( Lund U., 1959)

-- L. M. Garrido 1955 (¿?) {Link without Title} Spanish School genealogy list

-- Charles M. Sommerfield (Harvard U. 1957)

- Howard Georgi (Yale 1971) {Link without Title}

John Hagelin (Harvard 1981)

Lawrence J. Hall (Harvard 1981)

--- Nima Arkani-Hamed (Berkeley 1997)

Lisa Randall (Harvard U. 1987) {Link without Title}

--- Csaba Csaki (1997)

Andy Cohen

Ann Nelson

David B. Kaplan

-- Sheldon Lee Glashow (1959 Harvard) {Link without Title}

-- Kalyana T. Mahanthappa (Harvard 1961) {Link without Title}

-- Roy Glauber

-- Walter Kohn

-- Schwinger advised over 70 PhD's , according to Wikipedia

--- Norman F. Ramsey (Columbia U. 1940)

-- D. Kleppner

- W. Phillips

- D. E. Pritchard

E. A. Cornell

- C. E. Wieman

--- Martin L. Perl (Columbia U. 1955)

-- Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Michigan U. 1962) also adv. Jones, L.W

Enrico Fermi (Pisa, 1922, prof. Puccianti)

--- Emilio G. Segrè (Rome, 1928)

--- Owen Chamberlain (Chicago 1949)

--- Geoffrey Chew

-- David J. Gross (UC Berkeley 1966)

- Frank Wilczek {Link without Title}

Finn Larsen (1996, Princeton)

- Edward Witten

Eva Silverstein (1996, Princeton)

-- John H. Schwarz , (UC Berkeley, 1966) Dirac Medal 1989

- Michael R. Douglas , (Caltech, 1988)

- Cosmas K. Zachos (Caltech, 1979)

--- '' Chen Ning Yang '' (Chicago, 1948) (coadv Teller?)

--- Jerome I. Friedman (Chicago, 1956)

--- Jack Steinberger

-- Melvin Schwartz

--- Sam Treiman (Chicago,1952, co-advisor: John Simpson (OW Richardson tree) )

-- Stephen L. Adler (1964) {Link without Title}

-- Curtis Callan (1964) {Link without Title}

- Igor R. Klebanov (1986) {Link without Title}

Steven S. Gubser (1998)

- Peter Woit (1984-5, Princeton (undergrad Harvard))

- Juan Maldacena (1996, Princeton)

-- Steven Weinberg (Princeton, 1957)

- John Preskill {Harvard, 1980)

-- K. Fujikawa (1970)

--- Tsung-Dao Lee (Chicago, 1950) {Link without Title}

--- Marcello Conversi ? {Link without Title}

-- Carlo Rubbia

--- James Rainwater (1946, Manhattan Project)

-- Val Logsdon Fitch

--- Karl Herzfeld (Vienna 1914, F. Hasenöhrl)

-- John A. Wheeler (1933, Johns Hopkins Univ, Karl Herzfeld)

- Arthur Wightman (Princeton 1949)

Arthur Jaffe

Barry Simon

Rafael De La Llave

- Richard P. Feynman (Princeton, 1942)

George Zweig (Caltech 1963)

- Kip Thorne (Princeton U. 1965) {Link without Title}

- Jacob D. Bekenstein (Princeton U. (1972)

Eugene Wigner (1925, Berlin, Michael Polanyi )

--- John Bardeen (Princeton U. 1936)

-- John Schrieffer

R. D. Present

--- Frederick Reines (New York U. 1944)

-- William R. Kropp (Case Western Reserve U. 1964)

-- Frank A. Nezrick (Case Western Reserve U. 1965)

Gilberto Bernardini

--- Leon Lederman (Columbia U. (1951))

Hideki Yukawa (Kyoto, 1938, K Tamaki )

--- Donald R. Yennie

-- Stanley J. Brodsky (Minnesota U. 1964)

Ralph H. Fowler (Cambridge, 1915, Archibald Vivian Hill )

--- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (Cambridge, 1926)

-- Dennis W. Sciama (Cambridge, 1953)

- George Ellis (Cambridge, 1964)

- Stephen Hawking (Oxford, 1966)

- Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, 1967)

Roger Blandford (Cambridge, 1974)

- Brandon Carter (Cambridge, 1968)

- David Deutsch (Oxford)

--- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Trinity, Cambridge U. 1933)

-- Jeremiah P. Ostriker ( Chicago 1964)

--- Garrett Birkhoff

--- Noel B. Slater

--- John Lennard-Jones

J. Hans D. Jensen (1932, Hamburg)

Ernest Rutherford (rel J. J. Thomson )

--- James Chadwick (M.Sc.)

Georges Charpak (College de France, Paris, 1954)

Abdus Salam (Cambridge, 1951)

--- '' R. Shaw '' (Cambridge, 1955)

--- Yuval Neeman (Imperial Coll., London 1961)

--- Ray F. Streater (Imperial Coll., London 1960) {Link without Title}

--- Christopher Isham

--- J Moffat

--- Michael Duff

Leon Van Hove

--- Martinus Veltman (Utrech, 1963)

-- Gerardus 't Hooft (, 1972)

Henry W. Kendal (,1950?, Martin Deutsch)

Richard E. Taylor (,,Alberta)

ANCIENT LINEAGES

The Born tree leads to Gauß and then to Otto Mencke.

The Sommerfeld tree leads to Felix Klein and then to Otto Mencke (via Gauß) and Leibnitz. The Leibnitz heritage, although, is due to premature dead of Klein's advisor, Plücker, which forced a second supervisor for the final examination, namely Rudolf Lipschitz.

Another impressive advisor line in continental Europe descends from Leibnitz via among others, Poisson, Lagrange, the Bernoulli's, and Euler.

The main American branch's lineage proceeds via von Helmholtz to de Volder (Leiden, 1643-1709).

Otto Mencke (a Epicurus scholar, colleague of Leibnitz)

---Johann Wichmannshausen

--Christian Hausen (see http://www.math.vt.edu/people/renardym/comments.html )

-Abraham Kaestner

Georg Lichtenberg

--- Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (also advised by Kaestner)

Johann Pfaff ''de ortibus et occasibus siderum''

---Carl Gauß

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

- Heinrich Scherk (also advised by Heinrich Brandes)

Ernst Kummer

-- Christoph Gudermann

- Karl Weierstraß (honorary degree, no PhD)

Carl Runge (also advised by Ernst Kummer)

--- Max Born

--Christian Gerling ''..ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die'' .

-Julius Plücker ''... quae geometriae altioris et mechanicae basis et fundamenta sunt e serie Tayloria deducit''

C. Felix Klein (also advised by Rudolf Lipschitz the last year)

---C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann 1873, Erlangen,

-- Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld ''Die willkürlichen Functionen in der mathematischen Physik Universität'' Königsberg 1891

-- David Hilbert Universität Königsberg 1885

-- Martin Kutta München 1900

-- Hermann Minkowski Königsberg 1885

Erhard Weigel (Leipzig 1650) ''De ascensionibus et descensionibus astronomicis dissertatio''

--- Gottfried Leibniz (also Schwendendoerffer -law- and Thomasius -phyl- and Huygens)

-- Jacob Bernoulli (distant, via mail)

- Johann Bernoulli

Leonhard Euler

--- Joseph Lagrange (distant, via mail. Also Beccaria)

-- Jean-Baptiste Fourier

- ''Gustav Dirichlet''

--Simeon Poisson

- Gustav Dirichlet

Leopold Kronecker (also advised by Johann Encke, a disciple of Gauss)

Rudolf Lipschitz

--- ''C. Felix Klein''

- Michel Chasles

Gaston Darboux

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