Interesting tracing his lineage. His advisor was a particle physicist. Goes back through people I’ve never heard of to Fritz Haber... had no idea he was my ancestor!
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Who goes back to Kekulé... (now I’m going to dream about snakes)
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Who goes back to Gmelin... who goes back to both Brahe and Kepler, via one Ambrosius Rhodius... Omg, I’m descended from Kepler!
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Unfortunately Kepler was a great-grandstudent of Martin Luther, so I have to live with that https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=11239 …
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Tycho was a great grandstudent of Copernicus... https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=24246 …
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And not much before that, everyone is from Constantinople. Man history is a thing!
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This is amazing! I could trace my lineage there - though certain branch is missing because it is not direct primary PhD supervisor thing.
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Apparently I am just 6 steps away from Niels Bohr in direct teacher-student chain.
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My god he’s got a lot of descendants! https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=1943 …
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I infer from this that he was a really good PhD supervisor, at the pivotal point in European physics.
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I’ve been casually looking around to find other people who have large numbers of descendants. It probably follows a power law, blah blah. But it would be interesting to see what correlates with it.
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That tree is confusing to me as it also includes postdoc-like relationships - I'm also a descendant of Bohr according to that, via Wheeler, but Wheeler actually studied with him after his PhD. Worth bearing in mind if you just want direct advisor-student.
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Wheeler is a great example of someone with lots of descendants, though.
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