Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

My Scientific Family Tree

Each student is directly above his doctoral advisor or advisors.

Michael Baer^*
Thomas M. Cover^*			John T. Gill III^*
Norman Abramson^*			Manuel Blum^*						Robinson^*
Willis Harman^*			Marvin Minsky^*						Sacks^*
Spangenberg^*			Albert W. Tucker^*						Rosser^*
Bill Everitt^*			Solomon Lefschetz^*						Church^*
F. C. Blake^*			William Edward Story^*						Veblen^*
Ernest Nichols^*			Carl Neumann^*		Felix Klein^*				Moore^*
Edward Nichols^*			Richelot^*	Hesse^*	Plücker^*	Rudolf Lipschitz^*			H.A. Newton^*
Hermann von Helmholtz^*			Carl Jacobi^*		Gerling^*	M. Ohm^*	Dirichlet^*		Chasles^*
Johannes Müller^*			Enno Dirksen^*		Gauss^*	Langsdorf^*	Fourier^*	Poisson^*
Philip von Walther^*		Karl Rudolphi *	Thibaut^*	Mayer^*	Pfaff^*	(unknown)	Joseph Lagrange^*
Georg J. Beer^*	J. P. Frank^*	Weigel *	(unknown)	Abraham Kästner^*			(none, Leonhard Euler often cited)
Joseph Barth^*	G. M. Gattenhof^*	Erxleben		Christian Hausen^*
Anton Störck^*	A. von Haller^*	Kästner^*		Wichmannshausen^*
Gerard van Swieten^*	(see below)	Hausen^*		Otto Mencke^*

See this site and this site for notes about individual entries on this and similar sites. Automatic translations of the German Wikipedia entries are available for Richelot and Dirksen. Note that one must be careful not to confuse these scientists with others having similar names, such as the elder Johann Tobias Mayer, the jurist Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, and the elder Christian August Hausen.

For good measure, my Erdös chain is (and has been, since 1998):

Michael Baer
Elizabeth Mynatt
Larry F. Hodges
Joseph Winograd
Zvi Kohavi
Israel Koren
Paul Erdös

Had I collaborated with my principal advisor, the chain would have been far shorter, but not nearly as interesting.

Here's the missing piece of the above tree:

Gerard van Swieten			Albrecht von Haller
Herman Boerhaave						J. G. Duvernoy
Burchard de Volder				Wolferd Senguerdius		J. P. Tournefort
Johannes de Bruyn	Franciscus de le Boë Sylvius			Johannes de Raey		J. P. Magnal
Daniel Berckringer	Jacobus Stupaeus	Jean Baptiste Van Helmont		Adriaan Heereboord	Henricus Regius	J. P. Laugier
		Martinus del Rio	Adam Haslmayr	Franck Burgersdijk		P. R. Belleval
				Gilbert Jacchaeus