Scientific Ancestors of Eef van Beveren



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JP
 
JCLG
 
CFG
 
JFP
AGK
CAH
JCW
OM
 
EvB
KD
REM
HAB
AJWS
CLFL
CFK
                
               
SDP
        
            
GPLD
    
JLL
LE
JohB
JacB
GL
EW
               
JBJF
        
         
ROSL
             
            
MO
 
KCvL
        

Here you see my 15 generations of scientific ancestors. KD (Kees Dullemond) is my supervisor, whereas REM (Robert Eugene Marshak) is his supervisor, etc.
In the 7th generation CFK (C. Felix Klein) had two supervisors, JP (Julius Plücker) and ROSL (Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz).
The latter also had 2 supervisors, etc.
JLL (Joseph Louis Lagrange) is supervisor of two of my scientific ancestors, SDP (Siméon Denis Poisson) and JBJF (Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier).
He himself did not need to obtain a PhD, because he was at young age an as well known scientist as his supervisor LE (Leonhard Euler).
Hence, in a certain sense, that line of my scientific ancestors ends with JLL.


PhD Supervisors
Year PhD
Location
Eef van Beveren
1983
Nijmegen U.
Kees Dullemond
1962
Rochester U.
Robert Eugene Marshak
1939
Cornell U.
Hans Albrecht Bethe
1928
München U.
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld
1891
Königsbergen U.
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann
1873
Erlangen-Nürnberg U.
Christian Felix Klein
1868
Bonn U.
 1.  Julius Plücker
1823
Marburg U.
      Christian Ludwig Gerling
1812
Göttingen U.
      Carl Friedrich Gauss
1799
Helmstädt U.
      Johann Friedrich Pfaff
1786
Göttingen U.
      Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
1739
Leipzig U.
      Christian August Hausen
1713
Halle-Wittenberg U.
      Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
1685
Leipzig U.
      Otto Mencke
1665/6
Leipzig U.
 2.  Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz
1853
Berlin U.
      1.  Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet  
1827
Bonn U.
           1.  Siméon-Denis Poisson
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École Polytechnique
                Joseph Louis Lagrange
no degree
 
           2.  Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
?
?
                Joseph Louis Lagrange
no degree
 
      2.  Martin Ohm
1811
Erlangen-Nürnberg U.
           Karl Christian von Langsdorf
1781
Erfurt U.

Some further history:
Scientific Advisors
Time
Institution
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1736 - 1813
École Polytechnique
Leonhard Euler
1707 - 1783
Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences and Berlin Academy
Johann Bernoulli
1667 - 1748
Basel U.
James (Jacob) Bernoulli
1654 - 1705
Basel U.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz  
1646 - 1716
Leipzig U.
Erhard Weigel
1626 - 1699
Jena U.