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 list the physicists PhD date and school, if known. Italicized names indicates that a sub-tree for this name appears elsewhere in the tree. 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)
  • 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)
      • Paul Taunton Matthews (Cambridge, 1950)
      • Richard Dalitz (Cambridge, 1950)
        • Stanley Mandelstam (Birmingham, 1956; also under Paul Taunton 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)
  • 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)
      • Rohana Wijewardhana (MIT, 1984)
      • Stefano Forte (MIT, 1987)
        • Joan Rojo (U Barcelona; co-adv. José Ignacio Latorre)
      • Daniel Kabat (MIT, 1993)
    • 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)
      • 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)
        • Joseph I. Kapusta (University of California, Berkeley, 1978)
      • Samuel W. MacDowell (Birmingham, 1958)
      • John F. Reading (Birmingham, 1964)
    • Edward Teller (Leipzig, 1929)
      • Marvin Leonard Goldberger (Chicago, 1948; co-adv. Fermi, see below)
        • Franz Gross (Princeton,1963)
      • Chen Ning Yang^† (Chicago, 1948; co-adv. 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)
  • 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^† (1880, Berlin; 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)
    • 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)
      • Yakir Aharonov (Bristol, 1960)
  • 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)
    • 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)
      • Kenneth G. Wilson^† (Caltech,1961)
        • Michael E. Peskin (Cornell U., 1978)
          • Emil Martinec (Cornell, 1984)
          • Matthew J. Strassler (Stanford, 1993)
          • Jonathan L. Feng (Stanford, 1995)
      • Sidney R. Coleman (Caltech, 1962)
        • Leonard Parker (Harvard, 1967)
        • Stephen B. Fels (Harvard, 1968)
        • Arnold J. Cantor (Harvard, 1970)
        • David J. Griffiths (Harvard, 1970)
        • 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)
        • Eldad Gildener (Harvard, 1975)
        • Frank De Luccia (Harvard, 1979)
        • Lee Smolin (Harvard, 1979; co-adv. Stanley Deser)
          • 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)
        • 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)
    • 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)
  • 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)

Hermann von Helmholtz

• Hermann von Helmholtz (Berlin, 1842; under Johannes Peter Müller)
  • Arthur Gordon Webster (Berlin, 1890)
    • Albert Potter Wills (Clark, 1897)
      • Isidor Isaac Rabi^† (Columbia, 1927; A. Willis)
        • Julian Schwinger^† (Columbia, 1939)
          • Bryce DeWitt (Harvard, 1950)
            • Donald Marolf (Texas, 1992)
          • Michael Lieber (Harvard, 1959)
          • Gordon Baym (Harvard, 1960)
          • Abraham Klein (Harvard, 1950)
            • Benjamin W. Lee (University of Pennsylvania, 1960)
          • Ben R. Mottelson^† (Harvard, 1950)
            • Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson (Lund U., 1959)
          • Luís María Garrido Arilla (1955)
          • Charles M. Sommerfield (Harvard, 1957)
            • Howard Georgi (Yale, 1971)
              • 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)
              • Lisa Randall (Harvard, 1987)
                • Csaba Csáki (1997)
                • Matthew D. Schwartz (Princeton, 2003)
              • Andrew G. Cohen
              • Ann Nelson
                • David E. Kaplan (U. Washington, 1999)
              • David B. Kaplan
          • 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)
          • Lowell S. Brown (Harvard, 1961)
          • Kalyana T. Mahanthappa (Harvard, 1961)
          • Norman J. M. Horing (Harvard, 1964)
          • Roy Glauber^†
          • Walter Kohn^†
          • Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971; co-adv. Sidney Coleman)
            • William Daniel Phillips^†
            • David E. Pritchard
          • Martin Lewis Perl
            • Samuel Chao Chung Ting^† (Michigan, 1962; also advised by Lawrence W. Jones)
          • Fritz Rohrlich (Harvard, 1948)
            • 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)

Mayflower branches

Enrico Fermi

• Enrico Fermi^† (Pisa, 1922; under Luigi Puccianti)
  • James Rainwater^† (1946, Manhattan Project)
  • Chen Ning Yang^† (Chicago, 1948; co-adv. Teller)
  • Jack Steinberger^† (Chicago, 1948)
    • Eric L. Schwartz (Columbia, 1973)
  • Geoffrey Chew (Chicago, 1948)
    • David J. Gross^† (Berkeley, 1966)
      • Frank Wilczek^†
        • 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)
    • 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)
  • Sam Treiman (Chicago, 1952; co-advisor: John Simpson)
    • Stephen L. Adler (1964)
    • Curtis Callan (1964)
      • Peter Woit (Princeton, 1985)
      • Igor R. Klebanov (1986)
        • Steven S. Gubser (1998)
      • Juan Maldacena (1996, Princeton)
    • Steven Weinberg^† (Princeton, 1957)
      • Lay Nam Chang (UC Berkeley, 1967)
      • Claude Bernard (Harvard, 1976)
      • 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, 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)
        • 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^† (1925, Berlin; under Michael Polanyi)
  • John Bardeen^† (Princeton, 1936)
    • J. Robert Schrieffer^†
  • Victor Frederick Weisskopf (co-adv. Max Born, see above)
  • Marcos Moshinsky
  • Abner Shimony
  • Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Henry Augustus Rowland

• Henry Augustus Rowland (bachelor's at Rensselaer, 1870; no Ph.D.)
  • Edwin Hall (Johns Hopkins, 1880)
  • 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)
    • August Herman Pfund (Johns Hopkins, 1906)
      • Richard Threlkeld Cox (Johns Hopkins, 1924)
      • Haldan Keffer Hartline^† (M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1927)
    • 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 D. Holstein)
    • Frederick Sumner Brackett (Johns Hopkins, 1922)

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^† (Cambridge, 1915; under Archibald Vivian Hill)
  • Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac^† (Cambridge, 1926)
    • 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)
      • 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)
  • Ron Shaw (Cambridge, 1955)
  • Yuval Ne'eman (Imperial College, London, 1961)
  • Ray Streater (Imperial College, London, 1960)
  • Christopher Isham (Imperial College, London, 1969)
    • Fotini Markopoulou
  • John Moffat (Cambridge, 1958)
  • Michael Duff
  • Ali Chamseddine (Imperial College, 1976)
  • William R. Franklin (University of London, 1976)
  • Riazuddin (NUST, 1959)

Léon Van Hove

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

Ancient lineages

The Max Born academic genealogy leads to Carl Friedrich Gauss and then on to Otto Mencke. 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 main American branch's lineage proceeds via von Helmholtz to Burchard de Volder.

Otto Mencke

• Otto Mencke (colleague of Leibniz; PhD, Leipzig, 1665 under J. Thomasius)
  • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (PhD, Leipzig, 1685)
    • Christian August Hausen (DPhil, Halle-Wittenberg, 1713)
      • Abraham Kästner (PhD, Leipzig, 1739)
        • Georg Lichtenberg (DPhil, Göttingen, 1765)
          • Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (DPhil, Göttingen, 1800; also advised by Kästner)
        • Johann Friedrich Pfaff (DPhil, Göttingen, 1786)
          • Carl Friedrich Gauss (PhD, Helmstedt, 1799)
            • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (DrPhil (Hon), Göttingen, 1810)
              • Heinrich Scherk (PhD, Berlin, 1823; also advised by Brandes)
                • Ernst Kummer (PhD, Halle-Wittenberg, 1831)
            • Christoph Gudermann (Lehrerexamen, Göttingen, 1823)
              • Karl Weierstrass (honorary degree, Königsberg, 1854; no PhD)
                • Carl Runge (DPhil, Berlin, 1880; also advised by Kummer)
                  • Max Born (DPhil, Göttingen, 1906)
            • Christian Ludwig Gerling (DPhil, Göttingen, 1812)
              • Julius Plücker (PhD, Marburg, 1823)
                • C. Felix Klein (DPhil, Bonn, 1868; also advised by Rudolf Lipschitz—see below—the last year)
                  • C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann (PhD, 1873, Erlangen)
                    • Arnold Sommerfeld (PhD, Königsberg, 1891)
                    • David Hilbert (PhD, Königsberg, 1885)
                    • Martin Kutta (DPhil, Munich, 1900)
                    • Hermann Minkowski (DPhil, Königsberg, 1885)

Erhard Weigel

• Erhard Weigel (De ascensionibus et descensionibus astronomicis dissertatio, PhD, Leipzig, 1650 under Philipp Müller)
  • Gottfried Leibniz (DPhil, Leipzig, 1666; also later advised by Schwendendoerffer, J. Thomasius, and Huygens)
    • Jacob Bernoulli (distant—via mail)
      • Johann Bernoulli (Dr.med., Basel: published in 1690, submitted in 1694)
        • Leonhard Euler (Dissertatio physica de sono, PhD, Basel, 1726)
          • Joseph-Louis Lagrange (distant, via mail; also advised by Giovanni Battista Beccaria)
            • Siméon Poisson (PhD, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 1800; also advised by Pierre-Simon Laplace)
              • Michel Chasles (PhD, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 1814)
                • Gaston Darboux (PhD, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1866)
            • Joseph Fourier (PhD, École Normale Supérieure, year unknown)
              • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (honorary degree; also advised by Poisson)
                • Leopold Kronecker (De unitatibus complexis, DPhil, Berlin, 1845; also advised by Johann Franz Encke, a student of Gauss—see above)
                • Rudolf Lipschitz (DPhil, Berlin, 1853)
                  • C. Felix Klein (DPhil, Bonn, 1868; also advised by Julius Plücker—see above)

John Cranke

• John Cranke (MA, Cambridge, 1774)
  • Thomas Jones (MA, Cambridge, 1782)
    • Adam Sedgwick (MA, Cambridge, 1811; co-mentor John Dawson)
      • William Hopkins (MA, Cambridge, 1830)
        • William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
        • Peter Guthrie Tait
        • 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)
              • Ernest Rutherford (BA, Cambridge, year unknown)
                • 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)
          • William Henry Bragg^† (MA, Cambridge, 1885)
            • William Lawrence Bragg^† (MA, Cambridge, 1912)

See also

• List of theoretical physicists

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
• Neurotree genealogy
• Chemical genealogy

• Max Jammer, "Fritz Rohrlich and his Work", Found. Phys. 24, 209 (1994).