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Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists

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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.

An academic genealogy tree lists the physicists' PhD[lower-alpha 1] (or in some cases BA/MA)[lower-alpha 2] 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.

For the meaning of "s.v.", see here.

Founding fathers of modern physics[edit]

Niels Bohr[edit]

Max Born[edit]

Albert Einstein[edit]

Enrico Fermi[edit]

Ralph H. Fowler[edit]

Friedrich Hasenöhrl[edit]

Hermann von Helmholtz[edit]

Lev Landau[edit]

Max Planck[edit]

Abdus Salam[edit]

Arnold Sommerfeld[edit]

Léon Van Hove[edit]

Eugene Wigner[edit]

Hideki Yukawa[edit]

Classical lineages[edit]

The Max Planck, the Albert Einstein, the Lev Landau, and the Eugene Wigner academic lineages ultimately lead back to the Renaissance humanist Niccolò Leoniceno (an academic descendant of Paul of Venice).

The Arnold 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.

The Enrico Fermi and the Friedrich Hasenöhrl academic genealogies lead to Jurij Vega.

The Max Born academic genealogy leads to Carl Friedrich Gauss and then on to Otto Mencke and ultimately to Friedrich Leibniz, Gottfried Leibniz's father. The Léon Van Hove lineage stems from the Gottfried Leibniz one as well.

Another advisor line in continental Europe descends from Gottfried Leibniz via Poisson, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and Euler. The Gottfried Leibniz lineage proceeds from Regiomontanus who studied under Bessarion (a pupil of Gemistus Pletho) and Georg von Peuerbach (whose line descends from William of Ockham). (The Regiomontanus line also includes Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler.)

The lineage of the two main American branches (the Henry Augustus Rowland branch and the Arthur Gordon Webster branch—see s.v.) proceeds via Hermann von Helmholtz from Herman Boerhaave who studied under Wolferdus Senguerdius [de] and Burchard de Volder. Senguerdius's branch proceeds from Guillaume Budé and Volder's branch proceeds from Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples; both Budé and Lefèvre were pupils of George Hermonymus (a pupil of Pletho). The Ralph H. Fowler lineage also stems from the Lefèvre line.

Isaac Barrow was influenced by the work of Vincenzo Viviani, an assistant of Galileo Galilei.

Continental physics[edit]

Erhard Weigel[edit]

Otto Mencke[edit]

British physics[edit]

Isaac Barrow[edit]

Viennese physics[edit]

Jurij Vega[edit]

See also[edit]

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Notes[edit]

  1. In most of Europe, all fields (history, philosophy, social sciences, mathematics and natural philosophy/natural sciences) other than theology, law, and medicine (the so-called professional, vocational, or technical curriculum) were traditionally known as philosophy (see Sooyoung Chang, Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians, World Scientific, 2010, p. 183).
  2. Note that there were no PhDs in Germany before the 1650s (when they gradually started substituting the MA as the highest academic degree; arguably one of the earliest German PhD holders is Erhard Weigel, 1652—see his academic lineage tree), in France before 1808 (when they gradually started substituting diplomas as the highest academic degree), in Russia before 1819 (when the Doktor Nauk degree, roughly equivalent to the PhD, gradually started substituting the specialist diploma, roughly equivalent to the MA, as the highest academic degree) and in 1917–1934, in the U.S. before 1861 (when they gradually started substituting MAs as the highest academic degree), in the UK before 1917 (when they gradually started substituting the MA as the highest academic degree), and in Italy before 1927 (when they gradually started substituting the Laurea as the highest academic degree); see Doctor of Philosophy: History and Doktor Nauk: History for further information.
  3. Straus began his early work on relativity with Einstein, but then continued his career with work in pure mathematics. Thus, his advisees were specialized in fields unrelated to theoretical physics.

References[edit]

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