ACADEMIC ANCESTRY


Paul Howard Frampton (D.Phil. 1968 Oxford)
Frampton's adviser:
John Clayton Taylor (Ph.D. 1955 Cambridge)
Taylor's co-advisers:
Richard Eden (Ph.D. 1948 Cambridge)
Abdus Salam (Ph.D. 1952 Cambridge)

Eden's co-advisers:
Paul Dirac (Ph.D. 1926 Cambridge)
Werner Heisenberg (Ph.D. 1923 Munich)

Salam's adviser:
Nicholas Kemmer (Ph.D. 1935 Zurich)
Kemmer's adviser:
Wolfgang Pauli (Ph.D. 1921 Munich)
Pauli's and Heisenberg's adviser:
Arnold Sommerfeld (Ph.D. 1891 Konigsberg)
Sommerfeld's adviser:
Ferdinand Lindemann (Ph.D. 1873 Nurenberg)
Lindemann's adviser:
Felix Klein (Ph.D. 1868 Bonn)
Klein's co-advisers:
Rudolf Lipschitz (Ph.D. 1853 Berlin)
Julius Plucker (Ph.D. 1823 Marburg)

Plucker's adviser:
Christian Gerling (Ph.D. 1812 Gottingen)
Gerling's adviser:
Carl Gauss (Ph.D. 1799 Helmstedt)

Lipschitz's adviser:
Gustav Dirichlet (Ph.D. 1827 Bonn)
Dirichlet's adviser:
Simeon Poisson (Ph.D. 1802 Paris)
Poisson's adviser:
Joseph Lagrange (Ph.D. 1766 Berlin)
Lagrange's adviser:
Leonhard Euler (Ph.D. 1726 Basel)


SELECTED EXAMPLES
Taylor -1.
Salam 0. Dirac and Heisenberg 1. 
Pauli 2.  Dirichlet 7.
Gauss and Poisson 8. 
Lagrange 9. Euler 10.
n means academic n-greats-grandfather


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