My Professional Lineage
In 1998, APS News announced a PhD lineage contest, in which entrants were asked to trace their professional “family tree” – i.e. the production of doctoral level physicists by their thesis advisors – as far back as possible.
(See http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0399/039916.html for the winners.)
I thought I would see how far mine goes, and the following is the result of my “research”:
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Chris Quigg supervised my PhD thesis at Fermilab/The University of Chicago.
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Chris was one of the students of J. David Jackson (yes, the “Classical Electrodynamics” Jackson) at the University of California at Berkeley.
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David Jackson carried out his PhD thesis research under Viki Weisskopf at MIT. [See J. David Jackson, SNAPSHOTS OF A PHYSICIST'S LIFE, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 1999, Vol. 49: 1-33.]
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Viki Weisskopf went to Gottingen in 1928 and received his PhD under Max Born in 1931. [Abraham Pais, The Genius of Science – A portrait gallery of twentieth-century physicists, Oxford University Press, 2000.]
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Max Born took his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Gottingen. [Abraham Pais, The Genius of Science – A portrait gallery of twentieth-century physicists, Oxford University Press, 2000.] The track is lost here.
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Not bad for a village boy from Ipoh, Malaysia!
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Chris was able to connect further: check this out!
