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Encyclopedia > Genealogy of theoretical physicists
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It is possible to build an academic genealogy of researchers and scholars in theoretical physics by following the pedigree of their thesis advisors. If an advisor did not exist, or if the field of physics is different, a link can be constructed by using the university the physicist graduated from. The main interest is on trees containing someone of the highest distinction (Nobel Prize in Physics, Fields Medal, or similar merit). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... An academic, or scientific, genealogy, is an attempt to organise a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships. ... Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics, as opposed to experimental processes, in an attempt to understand nature. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ...

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  • "Italic" tells us that the subtree for this name appears in some other place in the tree.
  • If the PhD date and school is known, it is listed in parenthesis.
  • Bold typeface is used for Nobel prizes, although it may be preferable to add a notation instead, for typographic reasons.

Format: The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awards in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, physiology or medicine. ...

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If physicists are advised by mathematicians, their genealogy can be readily traced using the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Leonhard Euler is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is the person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database that gives an academic genealogy based on dissertation supervision relations. ...


Founding fathers

  • Lev Landau (Leningrad U, 1927)
    • Boris L. Ioffe
      • Mikhail A. Shifman

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947 in Göttingen, Germany) was a German physicist. ... Max von Laue (October 9, 1879 - April 24, 1960) was a German physicist, who studied under Max Planck. ... Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22, 1887, Hamburg – October 30, 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. ... Walter H. Schottky (July 23, 1886, Zürich, Switzerland - March 4, 1976, Pretzfeld, West Germany) was a German physicist who invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 and the tetrode in 1919 while working at Siemens. ... Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (January 8, 1891 – February 8, 1957) was a German physicist, mathematician, chemist, and Nobel Prize winner. ... Leó Szilárd (right) working with Albert Einstein. ... Albert Einstein( ) (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest physicists of all time. ... Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 in Königsberg, East Prussia – April 26, 1951 in Munich, Germany) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. ... Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physical chemist. ... Gregor Wentzel (February 17, 1898, in Düsseldorf, Germany – August 12, 1978, in Ascona, Switzerland) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. ... This article is about Austrian-Swiss physicist Wolfgang Pauli. ... Nicholas Kemmer (7 December 1911 -- 21 October 1998) was a physicist. ... Hans Albrecht Bethe (born July 2, 1906), is a German-American physicist from Strassburg (then part of Germany, now Strasbourg, France). ... Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is a British-born American physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. ... Robert Eugene Marshak (October 11, 1916 – December 23, 1992) was an American physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education. ... Roman Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. ... John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Professor in The Writing Seminars and the English department at Johns Hopkins University. ... In quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox is a thought experiment which demonstrates that the result of a measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part, regardless of the distance separating the two parts. ... Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. ... Felix Bloch (October 23, 1905 – September 10, 1983) was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the USA. // A stamp from Guyana commemorating Felix Bloch. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5, 1907, Berlin – September 19, 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. ... John Bell is a common name. ... Edwin Ernest Salpeter (born December 3, 1924) is an Austrian-Australian-American astronomer. ... Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Jewish Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as the father of the hydrogen bomb. ... Marvin Leonard Goldberger was born in 1922 or 1923. ... Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born 22 September[1], 1922) is a Chinese American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. ... Lincoln Wolfenstein is an American particle physicist who studies the weak interaction. ... Martin Bojowald is an German-born physicist who now works at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry of the Pennsylvania State University, USA. In 2005 he joined the permanent staff of the IGPG, after spending several years at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm, Germany. ... Friedwardt Winterberg Friedwardt Winterberg (b. ... Herbert Fröhlich (9 December 1905 - 23 January 1991) was a German-born British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. ... Sebastian Doniach (1934-) is a British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University. ... Walter Franz (1911 – 1992) was a theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz-Keldysh effect. ... Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a mathematician and physicist. ... Carl von Weizacker & Friedrich Hund, Goettingen DPI Friedrich Hund (February 4, 1896 - March 31, 1997) : German physicist known for his work on atoms and molecules. ... Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (28 June 1912 in Kiel, Germany), is a German physicist and philosopher. ... Burkhard Heim (from Heim Theory by Illobrand Von Ludwiger) Burkhard Heim (February 9, 1925 – January 14, 2001) was a German theoretical physicist. ... Maria Goeppert Mayer: Physicist (Women in Science) ISBN 0791072479 Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was born Maria Goeppert in Katowice, Silesia (then in Germany, now part of Poland). ... Pascual Jordan (October 18, 1902 in Hanover - July 31, 1980 in Hamburg) was a German physicist. ... J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, served as the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning in 1943. ... Willis Eugene Lamb, Junior (b. ... Philip Morrison, (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005), was institute Professor, Emeritus and Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ... David Bohm. ... Professor Yakir Aharonov BSc PhD is a physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of South Carolina, America. ... Weisskopf redirects here. ... Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and... John David Jackson (born 1925) is a physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ... Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American physicist. ... Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932, Brookline, MA) is an American physicist. ... Sidney Coleman at Harvard University Sidney Coleman is an eminent theoretical physicist. ... Anthony Zee is a physicist, currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. ... David J. Griffiths is a U.S. physicist and educator. ... Prof. ... Lee Smolin at Harvard. ... Jacques Distler is a physicist who studies string theory in Austin, Texas. ... Kerson Huang (黃克孫 pinyin: Huang Kesun), who grew up in Canton, China, is Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. His name, however, is mostly familiar to Chinese readers as the translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. ... Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. ... Lev Davidovich Landau Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian language: Ле́в Дави́дович Ланда́у) (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist, who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. ...

Mayflower branches, (i.e. North America), and other

  • R. D. Present
    • Frederick Reines (New York U. 1944)
      • William R. Kropp (Case Western Reserve, 1964)
      • Frank A. Nezrick (Case Western Reserve, 1965)
  • Hideki Yukawa (Kyoto, 1938, K Tamaki )
    • Donald R. Yennie
      • Stanley J. Brodsky (Minnesota, 1964)

Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882) For other uses, see Mayflower (disambiguation). ... Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. ... Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. ... Dr. Bryce S. DeWitt (January 8, 1923—September 23, 2004) was a theoretical physicist best known for his role in formulating the fundamental Wheeler_deWitt equation. ... Benjamin Roy Mottelson (born July 9, American-Danish physicist. ... Howard Mason Georgi III, born in 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he is also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Physics and Master of Leverett House. ... John Hagelin (June 9, 1954) is a theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory, a practitioner and teacher of Transcendental Meditation and yogic flying, an electronic designer of high-end audio equipment and was a candidate for President of the United States three times. ... Prof. ... Lisa Randall at Harvard University Lisa Randall (born 18 June 1962) is a well-known American particle physicist, and the most cited high-energy physicist in the period 1999 to 2004. ... This article is for Ann Nelson the physicist, not actress Ann Nelson who played Mrs. ... Sheldon Glashow at Harvard University Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Roy Jay Glauber (born 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. ... Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American physicist who was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. ... Norman Foster Ramsey (born August 27, 1915) is an American physicist. ... Daniel Kleppner is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. ... Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ... Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. ... Martin Lewis Perl (b. ... Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936) is a Michigan-born Chinese American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery of the subatomic J particle with Burton Richter. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ... Portrait of Dr. Emilio Segre Emilio Gino Segrè (February 1, 1905 - April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton. ... Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 - May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. ... Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923) is an American nuclear physicist. ... Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born 22 September[1], 1922) is a Chinese American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. ... Geoffrey Chew (born 1924) was a Physicist. ... David Gross and his wife in Santa Barbara David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American physicist and string theorist. ... Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ... Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. ... Cumrun Vafa is a leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. ... Eva Silverstein is a string theorist. ... John Henry Schwarz John Henry Schwarz (born 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. ... Michael R. Douglas is a prominent string theorist and the director of the New High Energy Theory Center at Rutgers University. ... Owen Chamberlain Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was a prominent American physicist. ... U.S. government photo Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese American physicist who did work on high energy particle physics, symmetry principles, and statistical mechanics. ... Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ... Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Sam Treiman is an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. ... Stephen L. Adler (b. ... Curtis Callan is a physicist and a professor at Princeton University. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Peter Woit at Harvard University Peter Woit is a mathematician at Columbia University. ... Juan Maldacena at Harvard Juan Maldacena is a theoretical physicist born in Argentina in 1968. ... Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... Prof. ... Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ... Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930) is a U.S. physicist. ... Friedrich Hasenöhrl (November 30, 1874 - October 7, 1915), was an Austrian scientist. ... Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld (February 24, 1892–June 3, 1978) was an Austrian-American physicist. ... John Archibald Wheeler (born 1911) is an American theoretical physicist. ... Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man) was one of the most influential American physicists of the 20th century, expanding greatly the theory of quantum electrodynamics. ... George Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology. ... Arthur Strong Wightman is an American mathematical physicist. ... Arthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. ... Barry Simon (born 16 April 1946) is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (particularly Schrödinger operators), including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. ... Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which he called his relative state formulation. ... Kip S. Thorne Professor Kip Stephen Thorne, Ph. ... Abhay Ashtekar (born July 5, 1949) completed his undergraduate education in India. ... Jacob David Bekenstein (born May 1, 1947) is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. ... Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and... Michael Polanyi (March 11, 1891 - February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian/ British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. ... John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. ... John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. ... Weisskopf redirects here. ... Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a mathematician and physicist. ... Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) was a U.S. physicist. ... Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 - November 20, 1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect. Hall conducted thermoelectric research at Harvard and where he also wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals. ... Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864-1943) was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935. ... Raymond Thayer Birge (March 13, 1887 - March 22, 1980) was a physicist. ... Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was a distinguished nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American... Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907-September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element. ... Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 - November 17, 1990) was the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons. ... August Herman Pfund (December 28, 1879 – January 4, 1949), American physicist and spectroscopist. ... Richard Threlkeld Cox (1898 - May 2, 1991) was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Coxs theorem relating to the foundations of probability. ... Clifford Glenwood Shull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915 – March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ... Haldan Keffer Hartline (December 22, 1903 - March 17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a cowinner (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. ... William Frederick Meggers (July 13, 1888-1968) was an American Physicist specialising in spectroscopy. ... Otto Laporte was a U.S. (German-born) physicist. ... now. ... Photograph of Gregory Breit. ... Albert W. Overhauser (born August 17, 1925 in San Diego, California) is an American physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. ... Marvin L. Cohen (born Montreal in 1935) is a professor of condensed matter physics at the University of California, Berkley. ... Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American theoretical physicist who, with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ... Alan Jay Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physics academic and Nobel Prize winner. ... Frederick Sumner Brackett (August 1, 1896 – ?), American physicist and spectroscopist. ... Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ... Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ... Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel prize. ... Sir Ralph Howard Fowler FRS (January 17, 1889 – July 28, 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer. ... Archibald Vivian Hill CH CBE (September 26, 1886–June 3, 1977) was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ... Dennis William Sciama (November 18, 1926 - December 18, 1999) was a British physicist who played an important role in the Golden Age of general relativity. ... George Ellis is the Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. ... Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. ... The Right Honourable Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a professor of astronomy. ... Brandon Carter is a theoretical physicist, most famous for his work on the properties of black holes and for introducing the anthropic principle. ... David Deutsch (born 1953) is a physicist at Oxford University. ... Chandrasekhar redirects here. ... Jeremiah (Jerry) Paul Ostriker (b. ... Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911, Princeton, New Jersey, USA - November 22, 1996, Water Mill, New York, USA) was an American mathematician. ... John Edward Lennard-Jones (October 27, 1894 - November 1, 1954) was a mathematician who held a chair of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then a chair of theoretical science at Cambridge University. ... Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 – February 11, 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist born in New Zealand and known as the father of nuclear physics. ... Sir James Chadwick Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a French physicist. ... Abdus Salam at Nobel Prize ceremony with the King of Sweden Dr. Abdus Salam (Urdu: عبد السلام) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab – 21 November 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which... Yuval Neeman (Hebrew: יובל נאמן, born May 14, 1925, died April 26, 2006), was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s // He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, graduated from high school at the age of 15, and studied mechanical engineering in the... Professor Christopher Isham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College in London. ... John Moffat is a Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto. ... Sir Michael Duff, the bon vivant and society figure, was the son of Sir Robin Duff, 2nd Bt, of Vaynol, and his wife Lady Juliet Lowther, only child of the 4th Earl of Lonsdale and his wife Lady Gwladys Herbert (later Marchioness of Ripon). ... Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931) is a 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics, work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft [ut-hooft] (The prefix ’t is pronounced as ‘ut’ and stands for ‘het’) (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... Henry W. Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Richard E. Taylor Professor Richard E. Taylor, CC , FRS , FRSC , Ph. ...

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 Leibniz. The Leibniz heritage, however, is due to the premature death 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 Leibniz via among others, Poisson, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and Euler.


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

Otto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. ... Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1663 - 1727) was a 17th-century German philologist. ... Christian August Hausen (born June 19, 1693 in Dresden, Germany; died 1743 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German mathematician who is known for his research on electricity. ... Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (September 27, 1719 – June 20, 1800) was a German mathematician. ... Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. ... Johann Friedrich Pfaff (December 22, 1765- April 21, 1825) was a German mathematician. ...   (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (July 22, 1784 – March 17, 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which, despite their name, were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). ... Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October 1798 - 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician and notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. ... Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 in Sorau, Brandenburg, Prussia - 14 May 1893 in Berlin, Germany) was a German mathematician. ... Christoph Gudermann (March 25, 1798 - September 25, 1852) was born in Vienenburg, Germany. ... Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (Weierstraß) (October 31, 1815 – February 19, 1897) was a German mathematician who is often cited as the father of modern analysis. He was born in Ostenfelde, Westphalia (today Germany) and died in Berlin, Germany. ... Carle David Tolmé Runge (August 30, 1856 – January 3, 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. ... Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a mathematician and physicist. ... Christian Ludwig Gerling (1788-1864) studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Gottingen. ... Julius Plücker. ... Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 – June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. ... Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (April 12, 1852 - March 6, 1939) was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π is a transcendental number, i. ... Arnold Johannes Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 - April 26, 1951) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. ... David Hilbert (January 23, 1862, Königsberg, East Prussia – February 14, 1943, Göttingen, Germany) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Martin Wilhelm Kutta (November 3, 1867 – December 25, 1944) was a German mathematician. ... Hermann Minkowski. ... Erhard Weigel (1625–1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Jakob Bernoulli. ... Johann Bernoulli (Basel, July 27, 1667 - January 1, 1748) was a Swiss mathematician. ... Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA ) (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. ... Joseph Louis Lagrange (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer who later lived in France and Prussia. ... Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 - May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow. ... Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (February 13, 1805 – May 5, 1859) was a German mathematician credited with the modern formal definition of a function. ... Simeon Poisson. ... Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (February 13, 1805 – May 5, 1859) was a German mathematician credited with the modern formal definition of a function. ... Leopold Kronecker Leopold Kronecker (December 7, 1823 - December 29, 1891) was a German mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and analysis must be founded on whole numbers, saying, God made the integers; all else is the work of man (Bell 1986, p. ... Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (May 14, 1832 – October 7, 1903) was a German mathematician and Professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. ... Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 – June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. ... 1793-1880 Christian mathematician. ... Jean Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. ...

See also

The following is a partial list of theoretical physicists: // Ancient Times Pythagoras^* (circa 569–475 BCE) Archimedesº* (287–212 BCE) Jesus Christ LOL (8 BCE – 29 CE) 15–16th century Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473-1543) 16–17th century Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642) Johannes Keplerº (1571-1630) René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650) 17...

External links and sources

  • hepnames offers a genealogy tool for High Energy Physics.
  • http://www.nobel.org/ Nobel website
  • the Notre Dame genealogy table
  • http://www.genealogy.ams.org/index.html keeps track of academic genealogy of mathematicians.
  • S. Chang, Academic Genealogy of American Physicists, AAPPS Bulletin Vol 13, n 6
  • Spanish school academic genealogy list
  • Lineage of Kamerlingh Onnes
  • Lineage of Lorentz and Van der Waals
  • Mathematics Genealogy Project

 
 

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