PhD Thesis Advisor Genealogy

David Sahnow
Date of Birth: August 31, 1962
Place of Birth: Providence, RI

Thesis: Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Comet Austin (1989C1) 
        Using A Two-Dimensional Diode Array Detector
School: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Paul Feldman
Year: 1992
On the web:
Paul Feldman
 
Date of Birth: November 04, 1939
Place of Birth: New York, NY

Thesis: An Investigation of Metastable Autoionizing Atomic Energy 
        Levels in the Alkali Elements
School: Columbia University
Advisor: Robert Novick (confirmed by Paul Feldman and Robert Novick)
Year: 1964
On the web:
Robert Novick
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth:

Thesis: The Fine Structure of Singly Ionized Helium
School: Columbia University
Advisor: Willis Lamb (confirmed by Robert Novick and Willis Lamb)
Year: 1953

Willis Lamb
Date of Birth: July 12, 1913
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

Thesis: I. On the Capture of Slow Neutrons in Hydrogenous Substances
        II. Electromagnetic Properties of Nuclear Systems
School: University of California at Berkeley
Advisor: Robert Oppenheimer (confirmed by Willis Lamb)
Year: 1938

Nobel Prize in Physics, 1955, Hydrogen fine structure 
On the web:
Robert Oppenheimer
Date of Birth: April 22, 1904
Place of Birth: New York, NY

Thesis: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren
School: University of Göttingen, Germany
Advisor: Max Born (from Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections, pages 98,102,103)
Year: 1927
On the web:
Max Born
Date of Birth: December 11, 1882
Place of Birth: Breslau, Germany

Thesis: Untersuchungen über die Stabilität der elastischen Linie in 
        Ebene und Raum unter verschiedenen Grenzbedingungen
School: University of Göttingen, Germany
Advisor: Carl Runge (from My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate, pages 100-101)
Year: 1907

Nobel Prize in Physics, 1954, Fundamental research in quantum mechanics
On the web:
Carl Runge
Date of Birth: August 30, 1856
Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany

Thesis: related to differential geometry
School: University of Berlin 
Advisor: Karl Weierstrass (from Dictionary of Scientific Biography)
Year: 1880
On the web:
Karl Weierstrass
Date of Birth: October 31,1815
Place of Birth: Ostenfelde, Bavaria (now Germany)

teaching degree:
Thesis: related to elliptic functions 
School: Theological and Philosophical Academy at Münster 
Advisor: Christof Gudermann (from Dictionary of Scientific Biography)
Year: 1839

honorary doctorate:
School: University of Königsberg
Year: 1854
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