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The following is my academic genealogy (see the Mathematics Genealogy Project<\/a>). I stopped tracking when I reached Werner Rolfinck (1599-1673), the first professor of chemistry at University of Jena, but available genealogy continued beyond that (check the neurotree website<\/a> for more information).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Li-San Wang (University of Texas at Austin, 2003).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Tandy Jo Warnow<\/a>\u00a0(University of California at Berkeley, 1991)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Eugene Leighton Lawler (Harvard, 1963)
    Combinatorist at UC Berkeley until his death in 1994; wrote\u00a0    this famous book<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Anthony Gervin Oettinger (Harvard, 1954)
    Co-founder and Chairman<\/a>\u00a0of the Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Howard Hathaway Aiken<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard, 1939)
    Pioneer on computer development; invented Mark I.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Emory Leon Chaffee<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard, 1911)
    Best known for his work on thermionic vacuum tubes; pioneered work on controlling weather, by dropping electrically charged grains of sand to break up clouds.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Chaffee\u2019s official advisor is\u00a0George Washington Pierce<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard, 1900), although he also mentioned Harry Wheeler Morse* (University of Leipzig, 1901)\u00a0(Fellow of AAAS. You can read his biography on\u00a0JSTOR<\/a>\u00a0(need subscription)).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    G.W. Pierce\u2019s academic lineage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. John Trowbridge<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard, 1873)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Joseph Lovering<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard, 1833)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Benjamin Peirce<\/a>\u00a0(Harvard, 1829)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Nathaniel Bowditch\u00a0<\/a>(self-taught)
      Author of\u00a0      The New American Practical Navigator<\/a>, first published in 1802, an encyclopedia of navigation and is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Harry Morse\u2019s academic lineage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Wilhelm Ostwald<\/a>\u00a0(University of Tartu, 1878)
        Won\u00a0        Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909<\/a>. One of the modern founders of the field of physical chemistry.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Carl Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0(University of Giessen, 1844)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Justus von Liebig<\/a>\u00a0(?) and\u00a0Friedrich\u00a0W\u00f6hler<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Justus von Liebig\u2019s academic lineage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. Karl Wilhelm Kastner<\/a>\u00a0(?, 1805)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Johann Friedrich August Gottling<\/a>\u00a0(Langensalza, Degree in Aopthecary, 1775)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Johann Christian Wiegleb<\/a>\u00a0(?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        4. Ernst Gottfried Baldinger<\/a>\u00a0(MD, 1760)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        5. Ernst Anton Nicolai<\/a>(1745, University of Jena) (bio<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        6. Friedrich Hoffman<\/a>\u00a0(1681, University of Jena) He was called \u2018the second Hippocrates\u2019 and the \u2018Aesculapius Hallensis\u2019 and was a well-regarded medical researcher of his time. (Another biography<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        7. Georg Wolfgang Wedel<\/a>\u00a0(Doctor of Medicine, 1669, University of Jena)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        8. Werner Rolfinck\u00a0<\/a>(1667, University of Jena)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        9. Daniel Sennert<\/a>\u00a0(1618, Leucorea Univesrity in Wittenberg) and\u00a0Adriaan van den Spieghel<\/a>\u00a0(1625, University of Padua)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          *Note regarding Edward Leon Chaffee\u2019s advisor<\/strong>
          I took many information sources from the web to trace back my academic ancestors. Of course, there is less information for more distant academic ancestors and their advisors. When I started this \u201cresearch\u201d years ago, I could only trace back to \u201cHarry Moss\u201d, an unknown professor who was the Ph.D. advisor of Chaffee. It turns out there are many academic offsprings from Dr. Chaffee and some of them built similar web sites, and they all wrote \u201cHarry Moss\u201d with little information. I tried searching for Harry Moss on the Harvard website but could not even find this person. But I wasn\u2019t expecting much \u2014 after all the information would be more than a hundred years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Google search led to this web page<\/a>, an oral history record interviewing Dr. Chaffee by Frederick V. Hunt in 1964, and was on the American Institute of Physics website. I cannot quote it without permission, but you can go there and search for Moss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          There are of course other ways to dig deeper. Chaffee received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 2011 in the Physics department, so there should be some kind of historical record at Harvard University. I found this information on page 799-800 in the Harvard University Catalog, 1908-09:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          You can find the document on Harvard\u2019s website (link<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          So there you go, it was thanks to a typo in the Chaffee interview transcript, but Edward Leon Chaffee\u2019s advisor was Henry Wheeler Morse, a physical chemist at Harvard University. With this information I could further trace my academic genealogy to at least another 300 years.\u00a0-Li-San Wang, October 14, 2012<\/em>

          P.S. June 25, 2022 – updated URL to the oral history record. Also the most amazing thing happened – Dr. Morse’s great granddaughter reached out to me after reading the story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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