Academic Genealogy of Professor
C. Lee Giles
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Please find below my academic or intellectual legacy. Note that it starts in the field of physics and then changes with Professor Sommerfeld to mathematics. Much of the mathematics genealogy can be found through the Mathematics Genealogy Project, an excellent resource.
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My advisor was Professor
Harrison H. Barrett
Barrett’s advisor was Professor R. Victor
Jones,
Ph.D. University of
Jones’ advisor was Professor Carson
D.
Jeffries,
Jeffries’ advisor was Professor
Felix Bloch, Ph.D. University of
Bloch’s advisor was Professor Werner Karl
Heisenberg,
Ph.D. University of
Heisenberg’s advisor was Professor Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Ph.D. University of Königsberg.
Sommerfeld’s
advisor was Professor
C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann, Ph.D.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Lindemann’s
advisor was Professor
Felix C. Klein, Ph.D. Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
When dissertation
students had two advisors, both are listed.
Klein’s advisors were Professor
Julius Plücker, Ph.D. Philipps-Universität
Plücker’s advisor was Professor Christian Ludwig Gerling, Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
Gerling’s advisor was Professor Carl Friedrich Gauß, Ph.D. Universität Helmstedt.
Back to Lipschitz, his advisors were Professor Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet, honorary Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and Professor Martin Ohm, Dr. phil. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Dirichlet’s advisors were Professor Simeon Denis Poisson, Ph.D., and Professor Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Ph.D.
At this point I refer interested parties who want to continue the lineage to the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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