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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. 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 Albert Einstein Arnold Sommerfeld - Arnold Sommerfeld (K nigsberg, 1891, v. Lindeman)
- Peter Debye (Munich, 1908)
- Wilhelm Lenz (Munich, 1911)
- Karl Herzfeld (Munich, 1914)
- Gregor Wentzel (Munich, 1921)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1921, Munich)
- Hans A. Bethe (Munich, 1928)
- Paul Sophus Epstein
- Werner Heisenberg (Munich, 1923)
- Karl Bechert (Munich, 1925)
- Herbert Froehlich (Munich, 1930)
- Walter Franz (Munich, 1934)
- Heinrich Welker (Munich, 1936)
Max Born - Max Born (1880, Berlin, Carl Runge)
- Friedrich Hund (G ttingen, 1922)
- Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (G ttingen, 1923)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (G ttingen, 1930)
- Pascual Jordan (G ttingen, 1924)
- Max Delbr ck (G ttingen, 1930)
- Siegfried Fl gge (G ttingen, 1933)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (G ttingen, 1927)
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf (G ttingen, 1931) (Born was formally advisor, but thesis work was done under co-advisor Eugene Wigner as Born was sick)[8]
- J. D. Jackson (MIT, 1949)
- F. L. Friedman (MIT, 1949)
- Murray Gell-Mann (MIT, 1951)[9]
- Kenneth G. Wilson (Caltech,1961)[9]
- Sidney R. Coleman (Caltech, 1962)[9]
- Leonard Parker (Harvard, 1967)
- Stephen B. Fels (Harvard, 1968)
- Arnold J. Cantor (Harvard, 1970)
- David J. Griffiths (Harvard, 1970)[11]
- John E. Mansfield (Harvard, 1970)
- Anthony Zee (Harvard, 1970)
- Lawrence R. Thebaud (Harvard, 1971)
- Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971, coadv Julian Schwinger)
- Erick J. Weinberg (Harvard, 1973)
- James P. Butler (Harvard, 1974)
- H. David Politzer (Harvard, 1974)[12]
- Eldad Gildener (Harvard, 1975)
- Frank De Luccia (Harvard, 1979)
- Lee Smolin (Harvard, 1979, coadv Stanley Deser)[12]
- 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)[12]
- John March-Russell (Harvard, 1990; coadvisor, Frank Wilczek, Fermi tree)
- 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)[9]
- Kerson Huang (1953, MIT)
- Herbert S. Green (Edinburgh, 1947)
- Cheng Kaijia (Edinburgh, 1948)
Niels Bohr Lev Landau Mayflower branches Isidor Isaac Rabi - Isidor Isaac Rabi (Columbia, 1927; A. Willis)[14]
- Julian Schwinger (Columbia, 1939)[14][15]
- Bryce DeWitt (Harvard, 1950)[15]
- Abraham Klein (Harvard, 1950)
- Ben R. Mottelson (Harvard, 1950)
- Lu s Mar a Garrido Arilla (1955)[15]
- Charles M. Sommerfield (Harvard, 1957)[15]
- Sheldon Lee Glashow (Harvard, 1959)[15]
- Lowell S. Brown (Harvard,1961)
- Kalyana T. Mahanthappa (Harvard, 1961)[17]
- Norman J. M. Horing (Harvard, 1964)[18]
- Roy Glauber
- Walter Kohn
- Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971, coadv Sidney Coleman)
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Michigan, 1962) also adv. Lw W. Jones
Enrico Fermi Friedrich Hasen hrl - Friedrich Hasen hrl (Vienna, 1897)
- Erwin Schr dinger (Vienna, 1910)
- Hans Thirring (Vienna, 1911)
- Karl Herzfeld (Vienna, 1914)
- Walter Heitler (Munich, 1926)
- John A. Wheeler (Johns Hopkins, 1933)
- Richard P. Feynman (Princeton, 1942)
- Arthur Wightman (Princeton, 1949)
- Hugh Everett (Princeton, 1956)
- Charles Misner (Princeton, 1957)
- John R. Klauder (Princeton, 1959)
- Kip Thorne (Princeton, 1965)
- Robert Geroch (Princeton, 1967)
- Jacob D. Bekenstein (Princeton, 1972)
- Claudio Bunster (Princeton, 1973) (Formerly Claudio Teitelboim)
- Norbert Straumann (Zurich, 1961)
Eugene Wigner Henry Augustus Rowland Hideki Yukawa - Hideki Yukawa (Kyoto, 1938, K Tamaki )
- Donald R. Yennie
- Stanley J. Brodsky (Minnesota, 1964)
- 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 Abdus Salam L on Van Hove 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 Leibniz. The Leibniz heritage, however, is due to the premature death of Klein's advisor, Pl cker, 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 (a Epicurus scholar, colleague of Leibniz)[26]
Erhard Weigel - Erhard Weigel (Leipzig 1650) De ascensionibus et descensionibus astronomicis dissertatio
John Cranke See also References External links
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