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.
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 mathematician
s, their genealogy can be readily traced using the Mathematics Genealogy Project
.
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, 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
.
Academic genealogy
An academic, or scientific, genealogy, organizes a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships....
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 mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
s, their genealogy can be readily traced using the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Mathematics Genealogy Project
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. As of September, 2010, it contained information on approximately 145,000 mathematical scientists who contribute to "research-level mathematics"...
.
Max Planck
- Max PlanckMax PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...
(Munich, 1879, Alexander von Brill)- Max von LaueMax von LaueMax Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals...
(Berlin, 1903)- Leo SzilardLeó SzilárdLeó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...
(Berlin, 1922)
- Leo Szilard
- Gustav Hertz (Berlin, 1911)
- Walter Schottky(Berlin, 1912)
- Walther BotheWalther BotheWalther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born....
(Berlin, 1914)
- Max von Laue
Albert Einstein
- Albert EinsteinAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
(Zurich, 1905)- Ernst Straus(Columbia, 1950)
Arnold Sommerfeld
- Arnold SommerfeldArnold SommerfeldArnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and groomed a large number of students for the new era of theoretical physics...
(Königsberg, 1891, v. Lindeman)- Peter DebyePeter DebyePeter Joseph William Debye FRS was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.-Early life:...
(Munich, 1908) - Wilhelm LenzWilhelm LenzWilhelm Lenz was a German physicist, most notable for his invention of the Ising model and for his application of the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector to the quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen-like atoms.In 1906, Lenz graduated from the Klinger-Oberralschule, a non-classical secondary school...
(Munich, 1911)- Ernst IsingErnst IsingErnst Ising was a German physicist, who is best remembered for the development of the Ising model. He was a professor of physics at Bradley University until his retirement in 1976.-Life:Ernst Ising was born in Cologne in 1900...
(Hamburg, 1924) - J. Hans D. JensenJ. Hans D. JensenJohannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war Jensen was a professor at the University of Heidelberg...
(1932, Hamburg)
- Ernst Ising
- Karl HerzfeldKarl HerzfeldKarl Ferdinand Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist.-Education:...
(Munich, 1914)- John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission...
(Johns Hopkins, 1933)- Richard FeynmanRichard FeynmanRichard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
(Princeton, 1942) - Charles W. MisnerCharles W. MisnerCharles W. Misner is an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties include general relativity and cosmology. His work has also provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity....
(Princeton, 1954) - Kip ThorneKip ThorneKip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists...
(Princeton, 1965)- William H. PressWilliam H. PressWilliam H. Press is an astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, and computational biologist. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Other honors include the 1981 Helen B...
(Caltech, 1973) - Saul TeukolskySaul TeukolskySaul Teukolsky is a theoretical astrophysicist and a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Cornell University. His major research interests include general relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and computational astrophysics.-Biography:...
(Caltech, 1973)
- William H. Press
- Richard Feynman
- John Archibald Wheeler
- Gregor WentzelGregor WentzelGregor Wentzel was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926...
(Munich, 1921)- Markus E. FierzMarkus FierzMarkus Eduard Fierz was a Swiss physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of Spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
(Zürich, 1936)- Frans Cerulus (Basel, 1954)
- Raymond Gastmans (Leuven, 1968)
- Antoine Van Proeyen (Leuven, 1978)
- Raymond Gastmans (Leuven, 1968)
- Frans Cerulus (Basel, 1954)
- Felix VillarsFelix VillarsFelix Villars was an emeritus professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory.-Early life:...
(Zurich, 1946)- Frank Tabakin (MIT, 1963)
- T. -S. H. Lee (Pittsburgh, ????)
- Christopher G. Fasano (Chicago, 1989)
- Cetin Savkli (Pittsburgh, 1996)
- T. -S. H. Lee (Pittsburgh, ????)
- Frank Tabakin (MIT, 1963)
- Res JostRes JostRes Jost in Zurich) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.-Life and work:...
(Zürich, 1946)
- Markus E. Fierz
- Wolfgang PauliWolfgang PauliWolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or...
(1921, Munich)- Nicholas KemmerNicholas KemmerNicholas Kemmer FRS, was a Russian born British nuclear physicist who played an integral and an edge leading role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in Physics....
(1935, Zurich, also under Gregor Wentzel?)- Ron ShawRon ShawRon Shaw was an English professional footballer who spent his entire professional career with Torquay United, making 384 appearances in the Football League.-References:...
(1955, Cambridge) - Sergio AlbeverioSergio AlbeverioSergio Albeverio is a Swiss mathematician working in the field of differential equations and mathematical physics.He studied at the ETH Zurich where he also did his PhD in 1967 under the direction of Res Jost...
- Klaus HeppKlaus HeppKlaus Hepp is a German-born Swiss theoretical physicist working mainly in quantum field theory. Hepp studied mathematics and physics at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule in Zurich, where, in 1962, with Res Jost as thesis first...
(1963,Zurich, also Res Jost)- Jürg FröhlichJürg FröhlichJürg Martin Fröhlich is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist.In 1965 Fröhlich began to study mathematics and physics at Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich...
- Konrad OsterwalderKonrad OsterwalderKonrad Osterwalder is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and currently serves as the Rector of the United Nations University . He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in May 2007. He succeeded Prof. Hans van Ginkel from the Netherlands to be the...
(1970, Zurich, also Res JostRes JostRes Jost in Zurich) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.-Life and work:...
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- Jürg Fröhlich
- Ron Shaw
- Nicholas Kemmer
- Hans A. Bethe (Munich, 1928)
- Freeman DysonFreeman DysonFreeman John Dyson FRS is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
(Cornell) - John IrwinJohn Irwin (disambiguation)John Irwin may refer to:* John Irwin , American English professor at Johns Hopkins University.* John Irwin , Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...
(1963, Cornell) - Roman JackiwRoman JackiwRoman W. Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. Born in Poland, Jackiw received his PhD from Cornell University in 1966 under Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson...
(1966, Cornell, Hans A. Bethe, & K. G. Wilson )- Rohana Wijewardhana (MIT, 1984)
- Stefano Forte (MIT, 1987)
- Daniel Kabat (MIT, 1993)
- Joan Rojo (U Barcelona, Coadv. J. I. Latorre)
- Robert Eugene Marshak (1939, Cornell)
- Gordon L. Shaw (1959, Stanford)
- Pran NathPran NathPran Nath is a theoretical physicist working at Northeastern University, with research focus in elementary particle physics. He holds a Matthews Distinguished University Professor chair.-Research:...
(1964, Stanford)
- Pran Nath
- Freeman Dyson
- Paul Sophus EpsteinPaul Sophus EpsteinPaul Sophus Epstein was a Russian-American mathematical physicist...
- Boris PodolskyBoris PodolskyBoris Yakovlevich Podolsky , was an American physicist of Russian Jewish descent.-Education:In 1896, Boris Podolsky was born into a poor Jewish family in Taganrog, in what was then the Russian Empire, and he moved to the United States in 1913...
(Caltech, 1928)
- Boris Podolsky
- Werner HeisenbergWerner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory...
(Munich, 1923)- Felix BlochFelix BlochFelix Bloch was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the U.S.-Life and work:Bloch was born in Zürich, Switzerland to Jewish parents Gustav and Agnes Bloch. He was educated there and at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, also in Zürich. Initially studying engineering he soon changed to physics...
(Leipzig, 1928) - Rudolph E. Peierls
- John BellJohn Stewart BellJohn Stewart Bell FRS was a British physicist from Northern Ireland , and the originator of Bell's theorem, a significant theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories.- Early life and work :...
(Birmingham, 1956) (coadv. Paul Matthews) - John F. Reading (Birmingham, 1964)
- Edwin Ernest SalpeterEdwin Ernest SalpeterEdwin Ernest Salpeter FRS was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis. He attended Sydney University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1944 and his master's degree in 1945...
(Birmingham, 1948) - Wladyslaw (Wladek) Swiatecki (Birmingham, 1950)
- Joseph I. Kapusta (University of California, Berkeley, 1978)
- John Bell
- Edward TellerEdward TellerEdward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy , and surface physics...
(1929 Leipzig)- Marvin Leonard GoldbergerMarvin Leonard GoldbergerMarvin Leonard Goldberger is a theoretical physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology.-Biography:...
(Chicago, 1948, coadv Fermi?)- Franz Gross (Princeton,1963)
- Chen Ning Yang (Chicago, 1948)(coadv Fermi?)
- Lincoln WolfensteinLincoln WolfensteinLincoln Wolfenstein is an American particle physicist who studies the weak interaction. Wolfenstein was born in 1923 and obtained his PhD in 1949 from the University of Chicago. He retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 after being a faculty member for 52 years, but still lectures there...
- Marvin Leonard Goldberger
- Hans Kastrup
- Thomas Thiemann (Aachen, 1994)
- Martin BojowaldMartin BojowaldMartin Bojowald is a German physicist who now works on the faculty of the Penn State Physics Department, where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. Prior to joining Penn State he spent several years at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany...
(Aachen, 2000)
- Reinhard OehmeReinhard OehmeReinhard Oehme was a German-American physicist known for the discovery of C non-conservation in the presence of P violation, the formulation and proof of hadron dispersion relations, the "Edge of the Wedge Theorem" in the function theory of several complex variables, the...
(Goettingen, 1951) - Friedwardt WinterbergFriedwardt WinterbergFriedwardt Winterberg is a German-American theoretical physicist and research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. With more than 260 publications and three books, he is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas...
(Göttingen, 1955)
- Felix Bloch
- Karl BechertKarl BechertKarl Richard Bechert was a German theoretical physicist and political leader. As a scientist, his contributions were in atomic physics.-Scientific career:...
(Munich, 1925) - Herbert Froehlich (Munich, 1930)
- Sigurd ZienauSigurd Zienau-Education:His undergraduate studies were in mathematics at Birkbeck College. His further studies in physics were very much in the 'old school' European style at the time and he variously studied under Walter Heitler, Wolfgang Pauli, and Herbert Fröhlich.-Career:...
(Liverpool, 1954)- Hugh Osborn (London, 1967)
- Ian JackIan JackIan Jack is a Scottish journalist who was the editor of the literary magazine Granta from 1995 to 2007. Granta 98 "The Deep End" was the 48th issue which Jack edited and the last.Jack was educated at Dunfermline High School...
(Cambridge, 1982) - Richard D Ball (Cambridge, 1986)
- Ian Jack
- Paul DaviesPaul DaviesPaul Charles William Davies, AM is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science...
(London, 1970)- Edmund Copeland (Newcastle, 1985)
- Hugh Osborn (London, 1967)
- Sebastian DoniachSebastian DoniachSebastian Doniach is a British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity, and biophysics....
(Liverpool, 1958)
- Sigurd Zienau
- Walter FranzWalter FranzWalter Franz was a theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz-Keldysh effect.Franz was a student of Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich. He was granted his Ph.D. in 1934...
(Munich, 1934)- L Tewordt (Munster, 1953)
- Uwe Brandt (Hamburg, 1969)
- H Leschke (Dortmund, 1975)
- Uwe Brandt (Hamburg, 1969)
- L Tewordt (Munster, 1953)
- Heinrich WelkerHeinrich WelkerHeinrich Johann Welker was a German theoretical and applied physicist who invented the "transistron", a form of transistor made at Westinghouse independently of the first successful transistor made at Bell Laboratories...
(Munich, 1936)
- Peter Debye
Max Born
- Max BornMax BornMax Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...
(1880, Berlin, Carl Runge)- Friedrich HundFriedrich HundFriedrich Hermann Hund was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.Hund worked at the Universities of Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt am Main, and Göttingen....
(Göttingen, 1922)- Carl Friedrich von WeizsäckerCarl Friedrich von WeizsäckerCarl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership...
(Leipzig, 1933)- Karl-Heinz HöckerKarl-Heinz HöckerKarl-Heinz Höcker was a German theoretical nuclear physicist who worked in the German Uranverein. After World War II, he worked at the university of Stuttgart and was the founder of the Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme.-Education:From 1935 to 1940, Höcker studied at the University of...
(Berlin, 1940)
- Karl-Heinz Höcker
- Harry LehmannHarry LehmannHarry Lehmann was a German physicist.Lehmann studied physics at Rostock and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin....
(Jena, 1950)- Bert SchroerBert SchroerBert Schroer is a German mathematical physicist, currently a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro and an emeritius professor in Berlin, who is known for his work on algebraic quantum field theory, braid groups, infraparticles, and other issues related to quantum field theory.-External links:*...
(Hamburg, 1963)- Bernd A. BergBernd BergBernd Berg is the Dirac Professor of Physics and a member of the School of Computational Science at Florida State University. Among other honors, Berg was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2004 and was awarded the Leibniz Professorship of Leipzig University in 2005.-External...
(Berlin, 1977)
- Bernd A. Berg
- Klaus Pohlmeyer (Hamburg, 1966)
- Karl-Henning RehrenKarl-Henning RehrenKarl-Henning Rehren is a German physicist who focuses on algebraic quantum field theory.Rehren studied physics in Heidelberg, Paris and Freiburg. In Freiburg he received his PhD in 1984. Habilitation 1991 in Berlin...
(Freiburg, 1984)
- Karl-Henning Rehren
- Bert Schroer
- Heinz Bilz (Frankfurt, 1958)
- Dieter LangbeinDieter LangbeinProf. Dr. phil. nat. Dieter Langbein was a German physicist, whose fields of research included solid state physics, fluid physics and microgravity. He was born on February 10, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany as Werner Dietrich Langbein and died on June 25, 2004 in Bad Homburg, Germany...
(Frankfurt, 1958)
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Lothar Wolfgang NordheimLothar Wolfgang NordheimLothar Wolfgang Nordheim was a German-born Jewish theoretical physicist...
(Göttingen, 1923) - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (Göttingen, 1930)
- Pascual JordanPascual Jordan-Further reading:...
(Göttingen, 1924) - Max DelbrückMax DelbrückMax Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Delbrück was born in Berlin, German Empire...
(Göttingen, 1930)- Carsten BreschCarsten BreschCarsten Bresch is a German physicist, geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Freiburg .-Biography:...
(Berlin, 1950)
- Carsten Bresch
- Siegfried FlüggeSiegfried FlüggeSiegfried Flügge was a German theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics. He worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Chemie and worked in the German Uranverein...
(Göttingen, 1933)- Achim Weiguny (Freiburg, 1963)
- Gerhard VollmerGerhard VollmerGerhard Vollmer is a German physicist and philosopher. He tries to build bridges between the natural science and the more social or humanistic disciplines. He is perhaps best known for his development of an evolutionary theory of knowledge.-Life:Vollmer studied in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and...
(Freiburg, 1971)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (Göttingen, 1927)
- Melba PhillipsMelba PhillipsMelba Newell Phillips was an American physicist and science educator. She completed her doctoral studies under J. Robert Oppenheimer and was also known for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on internal security, her actions leading to her dismissal by...
(Berkeley, 1933) - Sidney DancoffSidney DancoffSidney Michael Dancoff was an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics ....
(Berkeley, 1936)- Sidney DrellSidney DrellSidney David Drell is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell is a noted contributor in the field of quantum electrodynamics and particle...
(Urbana, 1949)- Steven FrautschiSteven FrautschiSteven Frautschi is an American theoretical physicist, Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his contributions to the bootstrap theory of the strong interactions....
(Stanford, 1958)- Roger Dashen (Caltech, 1964)
- Stephen D Ellis (Caltech, 1971)
- David Callaway (University of Washington, 1981)
- Randall Furlong (Rockefeller, 1987)
- David Callaway (University of Washington, 1981)
- Steven Frautschi
- Sidney Drell
- Willis LambWillis LambWillis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron...
(Berkeley, 1938)- Marlan ScullyMarlan ScullyMarlan Orvil Scully is a physicist best known for his work in theoretical quantum optics. He is currently a professor at Texas A&M University and Princeton University. He has authored over 700 scientific articles, as well as standard textbooks such as “Laser Physics” and “Quantum Optics” ...
(Yale, 1965)
- Marlan Scully
- Philip MorrisonPhilip MorrisonPhilip Morrison, was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Early life and education:...
(Berkeley, 1940) - Robert ChristyRobert ChristyRobert F. Christy is an American theoretical physicist and later astrophysicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. He was also briefly president of Caltech....
(Berkeley, 1941) - David Joseph Bohm (Berkeley, 1943)
- Yakir AharonovYakir AharonovYakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California. He is also a distinguished professor in Perimeter Institute.He also serves as a professor...
(Bristol, 1960)
- Yakir Aharonov
- Melba Phillips
- Victor Frederick WeisskopfVictor Frederick WeisskopfVictor Frederick Weisskopf was an Austrian-born Jewish American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr...
(Göttingen, 1931) (Born was formally advisor, but thesis work was done under co-advisor Eugene Wigner as Born was sick)- J. D. JacksonJ. D. JacksonJohn David Jackson is a Canadian–American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
(MIT, 1949)- Gordon L. KaneGordon L. KaneGordon Kane has been the Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Centerfor Theoretical Physics , a leadingcenter dedicated to the advancement of theoretical...
(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 Tait (Michigan State University, 1999)
- J. Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz (University of Michigan, 1989)
- Robert Garisto, (University of Michigan, 1992)
- James 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)
- Gordon L. Kane
- F. L. Friedman (MIT, 1949)
- William Tobocman (MIT, 1953)
- Anthony J. Baltz (Case Western Reserve, 1971)
- William Tobocman (MIT, 1953)
- Murray Gell-MannMurray Gell-MannMurray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles...
(MIT, 1951)- Kenneth G. WilsonKenneth G. WilsonKenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann....
(Caltech,1961)- Michael E. Peskin (Cornell U., 1978)
- Emil MartinecEmil MartinecEmil John Martinec is an American theoretical physicist born in 1958. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1979 and obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984. He spent the last two years of his graduate education at SLAC after his dissertation advisor, Michael Peskin, left...
(Cornell, 1984) - Matthew J. Strassler (Stanford, 1993)
- Jonathan L. Feng (Stanford, 1995)
- Emil Martinec
- Michael E. Peskin (Cornell U., 1978)
- Sidney R. Coleman (Caltech, 1962)
- Leonard ParkerLeonard ParkerLeonard Parker is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and a former Director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. During the late 1960s, Parker established a new area of physics - quantum field theory in curved spacetime...
(Harvard, 1967) - Stephen B. Fels (Harvard, 1968)
- Arnold J. Cantor (Harvard, 1970)
- David J. Griffiths (Harvard, 1970)
- John E. Mansfield (Harvard, 1970)
- Anthony ZeeAnthony ZeeAnthony Zee is a Chinese American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.Zee obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1970, supervised by Sidney Coleman...
(Harvard, 1970) - Lawrence R. Thebaud (Harvard, 1971)
- Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971, coadv Julian Schwinger)
- Erick J. WeinbergErick WeinbergErick Weinberg is a theoretical physicist who has spent most of his career at the Department of Physics in Columbia University. He obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1973. His advisor was Sidney Coleman with whom he discovered the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism for radiative spontaneous symmetry breaking...
(Harvard, 1973) - James P. Butler (Harvard, 1974)
- H. David Politzer (Harvard, 1974)
- Eldad Gildener (Harvard, 1975)
- Frank De Luccia (Harvard, 1979)
- Lee SmolinLee SmolinLee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. He is married to Dina Graser, a communications lawyer in Toronto. His brother is David M...
(Harvard, 1979, coadv Stanley DeserStanley DeserStanley Deser is an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. Currently, he is the Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts....
) - Gerald E. Sobelman (Harvard, 1979)
- Stephen ParkeStephen ParkeStephen Parke is a New Zealand physicist. He is currently a Senior Scientist and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory .-Biography:...
(Harvard, 1980) - Fred Posner (Harvard, 1980)
- Bernard Grossman (Harvard, 1981)
- Gregory W. MooreGreg Moore (physicist)Gregory W. Moore is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in mathematical physics and string theory. Moore is a professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of Rutgers University and a member of the University's High Energy Theory group....
(Harvard, 1985) - Jacques DistlerJacques DistlerJacques Distler is a physicist currently working in string theory. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1994.-Early life and education:...
(Harvard, 1987) - John March-Russell (Harvard, 1990; coadvisor, Frank Wilczek, Fermi tree)
- Stelios M. Smirnakis (Harvard, 1997)
- Nathan Salwen (Harvard, 2001)
- Leonard Parker
- James HartleJames HartleJames Burkett Hartle is an American physicist. He has been a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1966, and he is currently a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute...
(Caltech, 1964) - Rodney Crewther (Caltech, 1971)
- Christopher T. HillChristopher T. HillChristopher T. Hill is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He did undergraduate work in physics at M.I.T. , and graduate work at Caltech...
(Caltech, 1977) - Barton ZwiebachBarton ZwiebachBarton Zwiebach is a string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born in Lima, Perú. His undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977.His graduate work was in physics at the...
(Caltech, 1983)
- Kenneth G. Wilson
- Kerson HuangKerson HuangKerson Huang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist, who is currently Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT....
(1953, MIT)
- J. D. Jackson
- Herbert S. GreenHerbert S. GreenHerbert Sydney Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory...
(Edinburgh, 1947) - Cheng KaijiaCheng KaijiaCheng Kaijia , also known as Cheng Kai-jia or Cheng Kai Jia, is a Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer. He is a pioneer and key figure in Chinese nuclear weapon development.-Life:Cheng was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu Province in 1918...
(Edinburgh, 1948)
- Friedrich Hund
Lev Landau
- Lev LandauLev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...
(Leningrad State University, 1927)- Alexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.- Biography :...
(Institute for Physical ProblemsInstitute for Physical ProblemsP.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute was founded in 1934. The founder of the Institute, Prof. Kapitsa served as its head for many years. The head of the theoretical division of the Institute was Prof. Landau. The primary direction of...
, 1951) - Aleksander Ilyich AkhiezerAleksander Ilyich AkhiezerAleksander Ilyich Akhiezer wasa Soviet nuclear physicist, known for his scientific contributions to quantum electrodynamics,three hundred articles and eleven scientific books in his area....
(Kharkiv Polytechnical University, 1936) - Boris L. Ioffe
- Mikhail A. Shifman
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Isidor Isaac RabiIsidor Isaac RabiIsidor Isaac Rabi was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.-Early years:...
(Columbia, 1927; A. Willis)- Julian SchwingerJulian SchwingerJulian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.Schwinger is recognized as one of the...
(Columbia, 1939)- Bryce DeWittBryce DeWittBryce Seligman DeWitt was a theoretical physicist renowned for advancing gravity and field theories.-Biography:...
(Harvard, 1950) - Abraham KleinAbraham Klein (physicist)Abraham Klein was an American theoretical physicist.Klein studied at Brooklyn College and at Harvard University, where he made his 1948 master's degree and doctorate in 1950 under Julian Schwinger.In 1955 he became associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a full...
(Harvard, 1950)- Benjamin W. LeeBenjamin W. LeeBenjamin Whisoh Lee or Ben Lee, was a Korean-American theoretical physicist...
(University of Pennsylvania, 1960)
- Benjamin W. Lee
- Ben R. Mottelson (Harvard, 1950)
- Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson (Lund U., 1959)
- Luís María Garrido Arilla (1955)
- Charles M. Sommerfield (Harvard, 1957)
- Howard GeorgiHoward GeorgiHoward Mason Georgi III, born January 6, 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University...
(Yale, 1971)- John HagelinJohn HagelinJohn Samuel Hagelin is an American particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for President of the United States , and the director of the Transcendental Meditation movement for the US....
(Harvard, 1981) (coadv Sidney Coleman?) - Lawrence J. Hall (Harvard, 1981)
- Steve HsuSteve HsuDr. Stephen D. H. Hsu is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Oregon. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1986...
(Berkeley, 1991) - Nima Arkani-HamedNima Arkani-HamedNima Arkani-Hamed is a leading Canadian American theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology....
(Berkeley, 1997)
- Steve Hsu
- Sally Dawson (Harvard, 1981)
- Lisa RandallLisa RandallLisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her most well known contribution to the field is the Randall-Sundrum model,...
(Harvard, 1987)- Csaba CsákiCsaba CsákiCsaba Csáki is a theoretical physicist who studied under Lisa Randall. He is known for his work in models of extra dimensions and supersymmetry. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.-External links:*...
(1997) - Matthew D. Schwartz (Princeton, 2003)
- Csaba Csáki
- Andrew G. Cohen
- Ann NelsonAnn NelsonThis article is for Ann Elizabeth Nelson the physicist, not actress Ann Nelson who played Mrs. Berg on Fame . Ann Elizabeth Nelson is a particle physicist at the University of Washington. She was a student of Howard Georgi and has been a member of the university's Particle Theory Group since 1994...
- David B. KaplanDavid B. KaplanDavid B. Kaplan is the director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington. He earned his B.S. in 1980 from Stanford University, Ph.D...
- John Hagelin
- Howard Georgi
- Sheldon Lee GlashowSheldon Lee GlashowSheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University.-Birth and education:...
(Harvard, 1959) - Lowell S. Brown (Harvard,1961)
- Kalyana T. Mahanthappa (Harvard, 1961)
- Norman J. M. Horing (Harvard, 1964)
- Roy Glauber
- Walter KohnWalter KohnWalter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...
- Wu-Yang Tsai (Harvard, 1971, coadv Sidney Coleman)
- W. Phillips
- David E. Pritchard
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Michigan, 1962) also adv. Lw W. Jones
- Bryce DeWitt
- Julian Schwinger
Enrico Fermi
- Enrico FermiEnrico FermiEnrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
(Pisa, 1922; Prof. Luigi Puccianti)- James RainwaterJames RainwaterLeo James Rainwater was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.-Biography:...
(1946, Manhattan Project) - Chen Ning Yang (Chicago, 1948) (coadv Teller?)
- Geoffrey ChewGeoffrey ChewGeoffrey F. Chew is an American theoretical physicist.He has worked as a professor of physics at the UC Berkeley since 1957 and has been an emeritus since 1991. Chew holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics from the University of Chicago. Between 1950 and 1956, he was a physics faculty member...
(Chicago, 1948)- David J. Gross (Berkeley, 1966)
- Frank WilczekFrank WilczekFrank Anthony Wilczek is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
- John March-Russell (Harvard, 1990; co-advisor, Sidney Coleman, Max Born tree)
- Chetan Nayak (Princeton, 1996)
- Finn Larsen (Princeton, 1996)
- Maulik K. Parikh (Princeton, 1998)
- Edward WittenEdward WittenEdward Witten is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently a professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study....
- Jonathan Bagger (1983, Princeton)
- Cumrun VafaCumrun VafaCumrun Vafa is an Iranian-American leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. He is a recipient of the 2008 Dirac Medal.-Birth and education:...
(1985, Princeton) - Eva SilversteinEva SilversteinEva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. She and Kachru were both proteges of Edward Witten.She is best known for her work on tachyon condensation...
(1996, Princeton)
- Frank Wilczek
- John H. Schwarz (Berkeley, 1966)
- Anthony Ichiro Sanda (Princeton, 1969)
- Cosmas ZachosCosmas ZachosCosmas K. Zachos is a theoretical physicist. He was educated in physics at Princeton University, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of John Henry Schwarz.Zachos is a staff member in the theory group of the High Energy...
(Caltech, 1979) - Michael R. DouglasMichael R. DouglasMichael R. Douglas is an American theoretical physicist and professor currently at Stony Brook University.Michael R. Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a mathematician specializing in operator algebras. He received his bachelor's degree in physics...
(Caltech, 1988) - Gerald B. CleaverGerald B. CleaverGerald B. Cleaver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University and is the Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings division of Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research . His research specialty is string phenomenology and string...
(Caltech, 1993)- John T. Perkins (Baylor, 2005)
- Matthew B. Robinson (Baylor, 2009)
- Augusto Sagnotti (Caltech, 1983)
- David J. Gross (Berkeley, 1966)
- Tsung-Dao LeeTsung-Dao LeeTsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese born-American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars....
(Chicago, 1950)- Richard J. Drachman (Columbia, 1958)
- Norman H. ChristNorman ChristNorman Howard Christ is a physicist and a professor at Columbia University, where he holds the Ephraim Gildor Professorship of Computational Theoretical Physics. He graduated Salutatorian with an undergraduate degree in physics from Columbia in 1965 and received his Ph.D. from the same institution...
(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 TreimanSam TreimanSam Bard Treiman was an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made major contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing...
(Chicago, 1952; co-advisor: John Simpson, OW Richardson tree))- Stephen L. AdlerStephen L. AdlerStephen Louis Adler is an American physicist specializing in elementary particles and field theory.-Biography:Adler was born in New York City. He received an A.B. degree at Harvard University in 1961, where he was a Putnam Fellow, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964...
(1964) - Curtis CallanCurtis CallanCurtis Callan is a theoretical physicist and a professor at Princeton University. He has conducted research in gauge theory, string theory, instantons, black holes, strong interactions, and many other topics...
(1964)- Peter WoitPeter WoitPeter Woit is a Departmental Computer Administrator and Senior Lecturer in Discipline at Columbia University, known for his criticisms of string theory in his book Not Even Wrong, and his blog of the same name.-Career:...
(Princeton, 1985) - Igor R. Klebanov (1986)
- Steven S. Gubser (1998)
- Juan Maldacena (1996, Princeton)
- Peter Woit
- Steven WeinbergSteven WeinbergSteven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....
(Princeton, 1957)- Lay Nam Chang (UC Berkeley, 1967)
- Claude Bernard (Harvard, 1976)
- John PreskillJohn PreskillJohn Phillip Preskill is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology ....
(Harvard, 1980)- Alexios Polychronakos (Caltech, 1987)
- Elias Kiritsis (Caltech, 1988)
- Bob Holdom (Harvard 1981)
- John Terning (Toronto 1990)
- Gerald Gilbert (Texas, 1986)
- Fernando QuevedoFernando QuevedoFernando Quevedo Rodriguez is a Guatemalan physicist. He was appointed director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in October 2009; he succeeds K. R. Sreenivasan, who was the director since 2003....
(Texas, 1986) - Scott S. Willenbrock (Texas, 1986)
- Zack Sullivan (Urbana-Champaign 1998)
- K. Fujikawa (1970)
- Stephen L. Adler
- James Rainwater
Friedrich Hasenöhrl
- Friedrich HasenöhrlFriedrich HasenöhrlFriedrich Hasenöhrl , was an Austro-Hungarian physicist.-Life:Friedrich Hasenöhrl was born in Vienna, Austria in 1874. His father was a lawyer and his mother belonged to a prominent aristocratic family...
(Vienna, 1897)- Erwin SchrödingerErwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933...
(Vienna, 1910) - Hans ThirringHans ThirringHans Thirring was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring....
(Vienna, 1911)- Walter E. Thirring (Vienna, 1949)
- Peter G. O. FreundPeter FreundPeter George Oliver Freund is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago. He has made important contributions to particle physics and string theory. He is also active as a writer.-Biography:...
(Vienna, 1960)- Hsiung Chia Tze (Chicago, 1972)
- Jorge Crispim RomaoJorge Crispim RomãoJorge Crispim Romão is a Portuguese theoretical physicist. Currently, he is a Senior Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico working in Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas....
(Chicago, 1979) - Rafael I. Nepomechie (Chicago, 1982)
- Peter G. O. Freund
- Walter E. Thirring (Vienna, 1949)
- Karl HerzfeldKarl HerzfeldKarl Ferdinand Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist.-Education:...
(Vienna, 1914)- Walter HeitlerWalter HeitlerWalter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory...
(Munich, 1926) - John A. Wheeler (Johns Hopkins, 1933)
- Richard P. Feynman (Princeton, 1942)
- George ZweigGeorge ZweigGeorge Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology...
(Caltech, 1963) - Thomas CurtrightThomas CurtrightThomas L. Curtright is a theoretical physicist at the University of Miami. He did undergraduate work in physics at theUniversity of Missouri—Columbia , and graduate work at Caltech...
(Caltech, 1977)
- George Zweig
- Arthur WightmanArthur WightmanArthur Strong Wightman is an American mathematical physicist. He is one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms....
(Princeton, 1949)- Arthur JaffeArthur JaffeArthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. Born on December 22, 1937 he attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar, obtaining a degree in mathematics...
(Princeton, 1966)- Clifford TaubesClifford TaubesClifford Henry Taubes is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology.-Early career:Taubes received his Ph.D...
(Harvard, 1980)
- Clifford Taubes
- Lawrence Schulman (Princeton, 1967)
- Jerrold Marsden (Princeton, 1968)
- Barry SimonBarry SimonBarry Simon is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics , including the connections to atomic and...
(Princeton, 1970) - Rafael de la Llave (Princeton, 1983)
- Arthur Jaffe
- Hugh EverettHugh EverettHugh Everett III was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation....
(Princeton, 1956) - Charles Misner (Princeton, 1957)
- John R. KlauderJohn R. KlauderJohn R. Klauder is an American professor of physics and mathematics and author of over 250 published articles on physics....
(Princeton, 1959) - Kip ThorneKip ThorneKip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists...
(Princeton, 1965) - Robert GerochRobert GerochRobert Geroch is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theory in mathematics and physics. He was the Ph.D. supervisor for Abhay Ashtekar.Geroch obtained his Ph.D...
(Princeton, 1967)- Abhay AshtekarAbhay AshtekarAbhay Vasant Ashtekar is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University. As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its...
(Chicago, 1974)
- Abhay Ashtekar
- Jacob D. BekensteinJacob BekensteinJacob David Bekenstein is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.-Biography:...
(Princeton, 1972) - Claudio BunsterClaudio BunsterClaudio Bunster Weitzman is a Chilean scientist.Bunster studied Sciences at the University of Chile , Santiago and received his Ph.D in Physics from Princeton University, U.S. in 1973. He remained at the university, at the Institute for Advanced Study and also at the University of Texas, until 1984...
(Princeton, 1973) (Formerly Claudio Teitelboim) - Norbert Straumann (Zurich, 1961)
- Ruth Durrer (Zurich, 1988)
- Richard P. Feynman (Princeton, 1942)
- Walter Heitler
- Erwin Schrödinger
Eugene Wigner
- Eugene Wigner (1925, Berlin, Michael PolanyiMichael PolanyiMichael Polanyi, FRS was a Hungarian–British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and the theory of knowledge...
)- John BardeenJohn BardeenJohn Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...
(Princeton, 1936)- J. Robert Schrieffer
- Victor Frederick WeisskopfVictor Frederick WeisskopfVictor Frederick Weisskopf was an Austrian-born Jewish American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr...
(coadv. Max Born, see above) - Marcos MoshinskyMarcos MoshinskyMarcos Moshinsky was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997....
- Abner ShimonyAbner ShimonyAbner Shimony is an American physicist and philosopher of science specializing in quantum theory.-Career:Shimony obtained his BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University in 1948, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950. He obtained his Ph.D...
- Edwin Thompson JaynesEdwin Thompson JaynesEdwin Thompson Jaynes was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis...
- John Bardeen
Henry Augustus Rowland
- Henry Augustus RowlandHenry Augustus RowlandHenry Augustus Rowland was a U.S. physicist. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society...
(bachelors Rensselaer, 1870; no Ph.D.)- Edwin HallEdwin HallEdwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the "Hall effect". Hall conducted thermoelectric research at Harvard and also wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals.- Biography :...
(Johns Hopkins, 1880) - Harry Fielding ReidHarry Fielding ReidHarry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist. He was notable for his contributions to seismology, particularly his theory of elastic rebound that related faults to earthquakes....
(Johns Hopkins, 1885)- Charles E. Mendenhall (Johns Hopkins, 1898)
- Raymond Thayer BirgeRaymond Thayer BirgeRaymond Thayer Birge was a physicist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, into an academic scientific family, Birge obtained his Doctor's Degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1913. In the same year he married Irene A. Walsh. The Birges had two children, Carolyn Elizabeth Raymond Thayer...
(Wisconsin-Madison, 1913)- Edward CondonEdward CondonEdward Uhler Condon was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II.-Early life and career:...
(Berkeley, 1926)
- Edward Condon
- Raymond Thayer Birge
- Frederick A. Saunders (Johns Hopkins, 1898)
- Charles E. Mendenhall (Johns Hopkins, 1898)
- Joseph Sweetman AmesJoseph Sweetman AmesJoseph Sweetman Ames was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935.He was born at Manchester, Vermont...
(Johns Hopkins, 1890)- August Herman PfundAugust Herman PfundAugust Herman Pfund was an American physicist and spectroscopist. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He discovered the hydrogen Pfund lines, where an electron jumps up from or drops down to the fifth fundamental level.Pfund also invented the Pfund telescope configuration that bears his...
(Johns Hopkins, 1906)- Richard Threlkeld CoxRichard Threlkeld CoxRichard Threlkeld Cox was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foundations of probability....
(Johns Hopkins, 1924) - Haldan Keffer HartlineHaldan Keffer HartlineHaldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist who was a co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.Hartline began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns...
(M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1927)
- Richard Threlkeld Cox
- William F. Meggers (Johns Hopkins, 1917)
- Otto LaporteOtto LaporteOtto Laporte was a German-born American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics...
(Munich, 1924) - Curtis J. HumphreysCurtis J. HumphreysCurtis Judson Humphreys was an American physicist born in Alliance, Ohio, USA. He was chief of the Radiometry Section of the U.S. Navy during the 1940s...
(Michigan, 1928)
- Otto Laporte
- Gregory BreitGregory BreitGregory Breit was a Russian-born American physicist and professor at universities in New York, Wisconsin, Yale, and Buffalo...
(Johns Hopkins, 1921)- Charles KittelCharles KittelCharles Kittel is an American physicist. He was a Professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and has been Professor Emeritus since 1978.- Life and work :...
(Berkeley, 1941)- Albert OverhauserAlbert OverhauserAlbert W. Overhauser is an American physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his theory of dynamic nuclear polarization, also known as the Overhauser Effect....
(Berkeley, 1951)- John Joseph HopfieldJohn Joseph HopfieldJohn Joseph Hopfield is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield Network....
(Cornell, 1958)- Bertrand HalperinBertrand HalperinBertrand I. Halperin is the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the physics department of Harvard University.He grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He attended Harvard University , and did his graduate work at Berkeley with John J. Hopfield .In the 1970s, he, together with...
(Berkeley, 1965)- Daniel S. Fisher (Harvard, 1979)
- Catherine Kallin (Harvard, 1984)
- Steven H. SimonSteven H. SimonSteven H. Simon is an American theoretical physics professor at Oxford University and tutorial fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Between 2000 and 2009 he was a director at Bell Laboratories. He is known for his work on Topological Phases of Matter, Topological Quantum Computing, and...
(Harvard, 1995) - Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard, 2003)
- Bertrand Halperin
- John Joseph Hopfield
- Morrel H. Cohen (Berkeley, 1952)
- James C. Phillips (Chicago, 1956)
- Marvin L. CohenMarvin L. CohenMarvin L. Cohen is a Canadian-born American physicist. He is a professor of condensed matter physics and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.Cohen received his PhD from the...
(Chicago, 1964)- John D. Joannopoulos (Berkeley, 1974)
- Robert B. LaughlinRobert B. LaughlinRobert Betts Laughlin is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall...
(MIT, 1979) - David H. VanderbiltDavid VanderbiltDavid Vanderbilt is a physics professor at Rutgers University researching condensed-matter physics. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1976 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 studying under John D. Joannopoulos. He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics in 2006...
(MIT, 1981)
- Robert B. Laughlin
- John D. Joannopoulos (Berkeley, 1974)
- Marvin L. Cohen
- James C. Phillips (Chicago, 1956)
- Alan M. PortisAlan M. PortisAlan M. Portis was an American a solid-state physicist.-Career:He was the dean of engineering at Berkeley as well as an engineering professor. He was an early researcher in electron paramagnetic resonance. He also founded the Berkeley Physics Laboratory...
(Berkeley, 1953)- Alan J. HeegerAlan J. HeegerAlan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa to a Jewish family. He earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1957, and a Ph.D in physics from the University of California,...
(Berkeley, 1961) - N. Phuan Ong (Berkeley)
- Alan J. Heeger
- Raymond L. OrbachRaymond L. OrbachRaymond Lee Orbach is an American physicist and administrator. He served as Under Secretary for Science in the United States Department of Energy from 2006 until 2009, when he was replaced by Steven E. Koonin...
(Berkeley, 1960)- Gerald B. Arnold (UCLA, 1977) (coadv. Theodore D. Holstein)
- Albert Overhauser
- Charles Kittel
- Frederick Sumner BrackettFrederick Sumner BrackettFrederick Sumner Brackett , was an American physicist and spectroscopist.Born in Claremont, California, he graduated from Pomona College and worked as an observer at Mount Wilson Observatory until 1920. He observed the infra-red radiation of the Sun. Brackett received a doctorate in physics from...
(Johns Hopkins, 1922)
- August Herman Pfund
- Edwin Hall
Hideki Yukawa
- Hideki YukawaHideki Yukawané , was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.-Biography:Yukawa was born in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto. In 1929, after receiving his degree from Kyoto Imperial University, he stayed on as a lecturer for four years. After graduation, he was interested in...
(Kyoto, 1938, K Tamaki )- Donald R. Yennie
- Stanley J. Brodsky (Minnesota, 1964)
- Peter LePage (Stanford, 1978)
- Thomas W. Appelquist (Cornell, 1968)
- J. Terrance Goldman (Harvard, 1973)
- Michael Dine (Yale, 1978)
- Anthony Carmine Longhitano (Yale, 1981)
- Dimitra Karabali (Yale, 1986)
- Piotr KarasinskiPiotr KarasinskiPiotr Karasinski is a pioneering quantitative analyst, best known for the Black-Karasinski short rate model which he co-developed with the late Fischer Black. He is currently Senior Advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His contributions to quantitative finance include...
(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)
- Stanley J. Brodsky (Minnesota, 1964)
- Masako Bando (Kyoto, 1966)
- Donald R. Yennie
Ralph H. Fowler
- Ralph H. FowlerRalph H. FowlerSir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS was a British physicist and astronomer.-Education:Fowler was initially educated at home but then attended Evans' preparatory school at Horris Hill and Winchester College...
(Cambridge, 1915, Archibald Vivian Hill)- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (Cambridge, 1926)
- John C. Polkinghorne (Cambridge, 1955)
- Ian Gibson Halliday (Cambridge, 1964)
- Gerald V. Dunne (Imperial, 1988)
- Ian Gibson Halliday (Cambridge, 1964)
- Dennis W. SciamaDennis William SciamaDennis William Siahou Sciama FRS was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.-Life:Sciama was born in Manchester, England...
(Cambridge, 1953)- George Ellis (Cambridge, 1964)
- Roy Maartens (Cape Town, 1980)
- Stephen HawkingStephen HawkingStephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
(Oxford, 1966)- Malcolm PerryMalcolm Perry (physicist)Malcolm John Perry, is a theoretical physicist. Perry is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. His research mainly concerns general relativity, supergravity and string theory....
(Cambridge, 1978)- Tibra Ali (Cambridge, 2002)
- Malcolm Perry
- Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, 1967)
- Roger BlandfordRoger BlandfordRoger David Blandford FRS is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
(Cambridge, 1974)
- Roger Blandford
- Brandon CarterBrandon CarterBrandon Carter, FRS is an Australian theoretical physicist, best known for his work on the properties of black holes and for being the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form. He is a researcher at the Meudon campus of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of...
(Cambridge, 1968)- Patrick Peter (Paris, 1991)
- Xavier Martin (Paris, 1995)
- Reinhard Prix (Paris, 2000)
- Nicolas Chamel (Paris, 2004)
- David DeutschDavid DeutschDavid Elieser Deutsch, FRS is an Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford...
(Oxford, 1978)
- George Ellis (Cambridge, 1964)
- John C. Polkinghorne (Cambridge, 1955)
- Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharSubrahmanyan ChandrasekharSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ) was an Indian origin American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars...
(Trinity College, Cambridge, 1933)- Jeremiah P. OstrikerJeremiah P. OstrikerJeremiah Paul Ostriker is an astrophysicist at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Harvard, his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, and then carried out post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge. From 1971 to 1995, Ostriker was a professor at Princeton, and served as Provost...
(Chicago, 1964)
- Jeremiah P. Ostriker
- Garrett BirkhoffGarrett BirkhoffGarrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.The mathematician George Birkhoff was his father....
- Maurice Pryce
- John Clive WardJohn Clive WardJohn Clive Ward , was a British-Australian physicist. His most famous creation was the Ward-Takahashi identity, originally known as "Ward Identity" . This celebrated result, in quantum electrodynamics, was inspired by a conjecture of Dyson and was disclosed in a one-half page letter typical of...
- John Clive Ward
- Noel B. Slater
- John Lennard-JonesJohn Lennard-JonesSir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS was a mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then of theoretical science at Cambridge University...
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (Cambridge, 1926)
Abdus Salam
- Abdus SalamAbdus SalamMohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
(Cambridge, 1951, under N. Kemmer and/or P.T. Matthews)- Ron ShawRon ShawRon Shaw was an English professional footballer who spent his entire professional career with Torquay United, making 384 appearances in the Football League.-References:...
(Cambridge, 1955) - Yuval Ne'emanYuval Ne'emanYuval Ne'eman , was a renowned Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...
(Imperial College, London, 1961) - Ray StreaterRay StreaterRay F. Streater is a British physicist, and professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. He is best known for co-authoring a text on quantum field theory, the 1964 "PCT, Spin and Statistics and All That."- Life :...
(Imperial College, London, 1960) - Christopher IshamChristopher IshamChristopher Isham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London. His main research interests are quantum gravity and foundational studies in quantum theory. He was the inventor of an approach to temporal quantum logic called the HPO formalism, and has worked on loop quantum gravity and...
- Fotini Markopoulou
- John Moffat (Cambridge, 1958)
- Michael Duff
- Ali Chamseddine (Imperial College, 1976)
- William R. Franklin (University of London, 1976)
- Riazuddin (NUST, 1936)
- Ron Shaw
Léon Van Hove
- Léon Van HoveLéon Van HoveLéon Van Hove was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology.-Biography:...
- Martinus Veltman (Utrecht, 1963)
- Gerardus 't HooftGerardus 't HooftGerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G...
(1972)- Erik VerlindeErik VerlindeErik Peter Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is the identical twin brother of physicist Herman Verlinde. The Verlinde formula, which is important in conformal field theory and topological field theory, is named after him. His research deals with string theory,...
- Herman VerlindeHerman VerlindeHerman Louis Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a professor at Princeton University. He is also the identical twin brother of Erik Verlinde.-External links:**...
- Robbert DijkgraafRobbert DijkgraafRobertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf is a Dutch mathematical physicist and string theorist.Robertus Henricus Dijkgraaf was born on 24 January 1960 in Ridderkerk, Netherlands. He currently lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
(Utrecht, 1989)
- Erik Verlinde
- Gerardus 't Hooft
- Martinus Veltman (Utrecht, 1963)
Ancient lineages
The Max Born academic genealogy leads to Carl Friedrich GaussCarl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
and then on to Otto Mencke
Otto Mencke
Otto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1666 with a thesis entitled: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam.He is notable as being the...
. 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, 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
Burchard de Volder
Burchard de Volder was a Dutch natural philosopher.Born in a Mennonite family in Amsterdam, he first studied in Utrecht and from 1670 he studied philosophy at the University of Leiden under Franz de le Boë...
.
Otto Mencke
- Otto Mencke (a Epicurus scholar, colleague of Leibniz)
- Johann Christoph WichmannshausenJohann Christoph WichmannshausenJohann Christoph Wichmannshausen was a 17th-century German philologist. He received his Master's degree from the University of Leipzig in 1685...
- Christian August HausenChristian August HausenChristian August Hausen was a German mathematician who is known for his research on electricity.Hausen studied mathematics at the University of Wittenberg and received his master's degree in 1712...
- Abraham Kaestner
- Georg Lichtenberg
- Heinrich Wilhelm BrandesHeinrich Wilhelm BrandesHeinrich Wilhelm Brandes was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer.Brandes was born in 1777 in Groden near Ritzebüttel , the third son of Albert Georg Brandes, a preacher...
(also advised by Kaestner)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes
- Johann Friedrich PfaffJohann Friedrich PfaffJohann Friedrich Pfaff was a German mathematician. He was described as one of Germany's most eminent mathematicians during the 19th century...
de ortibus et occasibus siderum- Carl Friedrich GaussCarl Friedrich GaussJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
- Heinrich ScherkHeinrich ScherkHeinrich Ferdinand Scherk was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer.-External links: **...
(also advised by Heinrich Brandes)- Ernst KummerErnst KummerErnst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.-Life:Kummer...
- Ernst Kummer
- Heinrich Scherk
- Christoph GudermannChristoph GudermannChristoph Gudermann was born in Vienenburg. He was the son of a school teacher and became a teacher himself after studying at the University of Göttingen, where his advisor was Karl Friedrich Gauss...
- Karl Weierstraß (honorary degree, no PhD)
- Carl Runge (also advised by Ernst Kummer)
- Max BornMax BornMax Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...
- Max Born
- Carl Runge (also advised by Ernst Kummer)
- Karl Weierstraß (honorary degree, no PhD)
- Christian Ludwig GerlingChristian Ludwig GerlingChristian Ludwig Gerling studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Göttingen...
..ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die .- Julius PlückerJulius PlückerJulius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.- Early...
... quae geometriae altioris et mechanicae basis et fundamenta sunt e serie Tayloria deducit- C. Felix Klein (also advised by Rudolf Lipschitz the last year)
- C. L. Ferdinand LindemannFerdinand von LindemannCarl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π is a transcendental number, i.e., it is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients....
1873, Erlangen- Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld Die willkürlichen Functionen in der mathematischen Physik Universität Königsberg 1891
- David HilbertDavid HilbertDavid Hilbert was a German mathematician. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of...
(Universität Königsberg, 1885) - Martin Kutta (München, 1900)
- Hermann MinkowskiHermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski was a German mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.- Life and work :Hermann Minkowski was born...
(Königsberg, 1885)
- C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann
- C. Felix Klein (also advised by Rudolf Lipschitz the last year)
- Julius Plücker
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Georg Lichtenberg
- Abraham Kaestner
- Christian August Hausen
- Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
Erhard Weigel
- Erhard WeigelErhard WeigelErhard Weigel was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was professor of mathematics at Jena University. He was the teacher of Leibniz in 1663, and other notable students...
(Leipzig 1650) De ascensionibus et descensionibus astronomicis dissertatio- Gottfried LeibnizGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....
(also Schwendendoerffer -law- and Thomasius -phyl- and Huygens)- Jacob Bernoulli (distant, via mail)
- Johann BernoulliJohann BernoulliJohann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family...
- Leonhard EulerLeonhard EulerLeonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...
- Joseph LagrangeJoseph LagrangeCount Joseph Lagrange was a French soldier who rose through the ranks and gained promotion to the rank of general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, subsequently pursuing a successful career during the Napoleonic Wars and winning promotion to the top military rank of General of Division....
(distant, via mail. Also Beccaria)- Jean-Baptiste Joseph FourierJoseph FourierJean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier's Law are also named in his honour...
- Gustav DirichletJohann Peter Gustav Lejeune DirichletJohann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory , as well as to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a...
- Gustav Dirichlet
- Simeon Poisson
- Gustav DirichletJohann Peter Gustav Lejeune DirichletJohann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory , as well as to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a...
- Leopold KroneckerLeopold KroneckerLeopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra.He criticized Cantor's work on set theory, and was quoted by as having said, "God made integers; all else is the work of man"...
(also advised by Johann Encke, a student of Gauss) - Rudolf LipschitzRudolf LipschitzRudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. Peter Gustav Dirichlet was his teacher. He supervised the early work of Felix Klein....
- C. Felix Klein
- Leopold Kronecker
- Michel ChaslesMichel ChaslesMichel Floréal Chasles was a French mathematician.He was born at Épernon in France and studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris under Siméon Denis Poisson. In the War of the Sixth Coalition he was drafted to fight in the defence of Paris in 1814...
- Gaston Darboux (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1866)
- Gustav Dirichlet
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
- Joseph Lagrange
- Leonhard Euler
- Johann Bernoulli
- Jacob Bernoulli (distant, via mail)
- Gottfried Leibniz
John Cranke
- John CrankeJohn CrankeJohn Cranke was an English scientific thinker and clergyman, particularly notable for starting a scientific genealogy producing some eight Nobel Prize winners in total. Cranke was admitted as a sizar at the age of 21 into Trinity College, University of Cambridge on July 1, 1767, after graduating...
(MA Cambridge 1774)- Thomas JonesThomas Jones (mathematician)Thomas Jones was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick....
(MA Cambridge 1782)- Adam SedgwickAdam SedgwickAdam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale...
(MA Cambridge 1811, co-mentor John Dawson)- William HopkinsWilliam HopkinsWilliam Hopkins FRS was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the senior-wrangler maker....
- Edward John Routh
- John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
- J. J. ThomsonJ. J. ThomsonSir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer...
(co-mentor John Strutt ?)- Ernest RutherfordErnest RutherfordErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...
- Ernest Rutherford
- Francis Galton
- George Gabriel Stokes
- Arthur Cayley
- William ThomsonWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging...
, Lord Kelvin - Peter Guthrie Tait
- James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory...
- Isaac Todhunter
- Edward John Routh
- William Hopkins
- Adam Sedgwick
- Thomas Jones