Ph.D. Genealogy
My academic genealogy — tracing the chain of PhD advisors.
Friedrich Leibniz (1597–1652)
Moral philosopher
University of Leipzig
Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684)
Philosopher
University of Leipzig
Otto Mencke (1644–1707)
Philosopher and Mathematician
University of Leipzig
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1663–1727)
Philosopher
University of Leipzig · University of Wittenberg
Christian August Hausen (1693–1743)
Mathematician
University of Wittenberg · University of Leipzig
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719–1800)
Mathematician and epigrammatist
University of Leipzig · University of Göttingen
The crater Kästner on the Moon is named after him.
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777)
Naturalist
University of Göttingen
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748–1831)
Chemist and botanist
University of Göttingen · University of Greifswald
Karl Asmund Rudolphi (1771–1832)
Naturalist — "father of helminthology"
University of Greifswald · University of Berlin
Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858)
Physiologist
Rhine University · University of Berlin
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
Physicist and physician
University of Bonn · University of Heidelberg · Humboldt University
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)
Physicist — Nobel Prize in Physics
United States Naval Academy · University of Berlin · University of Chicago
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)
Experimental physicist — Nobel Prize in Physics
Columbia University · University of Chicago · Caltech
Charles Christian Lauritsen (1892–1968)
Nuclear physicist
Caltech
Horace Richard Crane (1907–2007)
Physicist — National Medal of Science
Caltech · University of Michigan
David Todd Wilkinson (1935–2002)
Cosmologist — NASA's WMAP named after him
University of Michigan · Princeton University
Peter Timbie
Physicist, cosmologist
Brown University · University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brian Keating (1971–present)
Cosmologist
Brown University · Stanford University · Caltech · UC San Diego
ME
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