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Academic Genealogy

My advisor was Brian Noble at the University of Michigan.  So up the line it goes:

Brian Noble (Michigan, PhD CMU)
  Mahadev Satyanarayanan (CMU, PhD CMU) Satya had two advisors, Bill Wulf and George Robertson.  George didn't get a PhD, but started one under Allen Newell.  The rest of the genealogy does not continue this line.
  William Wulf (UVA, PhD UVA)
President of the National Academy of Engineering
  Alan Batson (UVA, PhD Physics Brimingham)
No picture. 

Len Riddiford (Deceased, PhD Physics Brimingham)
Leonard Riddiford was an Australian physicist from Melbourne.  He was educated at selective school Melbourne High School, where he was an all-round scholar - captain of the school’s cricket, football and baseball teams, school captain and head of the students’ representative council - graduating in 1942.  By 1946, he was working on what was apparently the first particle accelerator in Australia at the University of Melbourne (a 2.8 MeV betatron).  In around 1947-1948, he moved to Birmingham in the UK, as one of a number of Australians drawn to the large accelerator project there, led by fellow-Australian Sir Mark Oliphant. Riddiford’s role on the synchrotron is elucidated a little in a brief history of early British synchrotrons.  Len Riddiford took his PhD at Birmingham in 1950 (cited in the endnotes).
The preface of the thesis states that it is “in the main an account of research work carried out by the author during the past three years in the Physics Department of the Birmingham University under the direction of Prof. M.L. Oliphant, F.R.S.” 
  Sir Mark Oliphant
Oliphant was then Professor of Physics at Birmingham  (1937-1950), and later became Professor of Physics at Australian National University, and subsequently Governor of the State of South Australia from 1971. Oliphant in turn had worked with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish 1927-1936, and had worked on the Manhattan Project with Ernest Lawrence at UCB 1943-1945.
 

Ernest Rutherford
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908

Joseph J. Thomson
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906
Cambridge, 1880 (Math)
Edward J. Routh
Cambridge, 1854 (Math)

William Hopkins
Cambridge, 1830 (Math)
William did not receive a doctorate degre as none existed at Cambridge until 1919, but Sedgwick is still considered to be his advisor.

Adam Sedgwick
Cambridge, 1808 (Geology)
Also the advisor of Charles Darwin.


Thomas Jones

Sedgewick had two mentors:
Thomas Jones (Mathematician)
John Dawson (Surgeon)
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Dawson had no mentor (AFAIK), and Jones' mentor was:
John Cranke

Many, many thanks must go to the librarians at Birmingham for all of their help with this.  The information on Len I received from Nicholas J Cowell in NSW, Ausrtralia.  Thanks!


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