Academic Lineage Academic Lineage

The chair of my dissertation committee was Professor William Newcomb of the Department of Applied Science at the University of California at Davis, who represents the mathematical side of my academic ancestry. Professor Allan Kaufman of the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, with whom I did most of my thesis work, represents the physical side. You can learn more about many (though not all) of the people below by clicking on the pictures. I would be most grateful to hear about any errors or omissions on this page.

Bruce Michael Boghosian
(1955-)
U. Cal. Davis (1987)

William A. Newcomb
(1927-1999)
Cornell University (1952)

Allan Nathan Kaufman
(1927-)
U. Chicago (1953)

Mark Kac
(1914-1984)
Lvov, Poland (1937)

Marvin Leonard Goldberger
(1922-)
U. Chicago (1948)

Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus
(1887-1972)
Göttingen (1911)

Enrico Fermi
(1901-1954)
University of Pisa (1922)

David Hilbert
(1862-1943)
Dissertation: Königsberg (1885)

Luigi Puccianti
(1875-1952)
University of Pisa (1898)

Carl Louis
Ferdinand von Lindemann
(1852-1939)
Erlangen (1873)

Felix Christian Klein
(1849-1925)
Bonn (1868)

Julius Plücker
(1801-1868)
Elberfeld (1829?)

Rudolph Otto
Sigismund Lipschitz
(1832-1903)
University of Berlin (1853)

Johann Peter Gustav
Lejeune Dirichlet
(1805-1859)
Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat
Bonn (1827)

Martin Ohm
(1792-1872)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat
Erlangen-Nurnberg (1811)

Siméon Denis Poisson
(1781-1840)
École Polytechnique, Paris (1800)

Jean-Baptiste
Joseph Fourier
(1768-1830)
École Normale, Paris (1795?)

Karl Christian
von Langsdorf
(17??-18??)
Self-taught

Joseph Louis Lagrange
(1736-1813)
Self-taught

Pierre-Simon Laplace
(1749-1827)
?, (1770?)

Gaspard Monge
(1746-1818)
?, (1769?)

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
(1717-1783)
Self-taught

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