Chemical Genealogy
Pietro Roccabonella (MD ??, Univ of Padua)
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Niccolò Leoniceno (MD 1453, Univ of Padua)
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Antonio Musa Brassovola (MD ??, Univ of Ferrara)
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Gabrielle Falloppio (MD 1548, Univ of Padua)
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Hieronymous Fabricius (MD 1559, Univ of Padua)
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Adrian van de Spiegel [aka Adriananus Spigelus]
(MD ??, Univ of Padua)
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Werner Rolfinck (MD 1625, Univ of Padua)
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Georg Wolfgang Wedel (MD 1669, Univ of Jena)
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Johann Adolph Wedel (MD 1697, Univ of Jena)
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Georg Erhardt Hamberger (MD 1721, Univ of Jena)
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Christoph Andreas Mangold (MD 1751, Univ of Erfurt)
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Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (MD 1760, Univ of Jena)
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Johann Christian Wiegleb (Apothecary 1765, Univ of Langensalza)
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Johann Friedrich August Gottling (Apothecary 1775,
Univ of Langensalza)
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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (PhD 1805, Univ of Jena)
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Baron Justus von Liebig (PhD 1822, Univ of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
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Friedrich Rochleder (MD 1842, Univ of Vienna)
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Thomas Anderson (MD ??, ??)
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Carl Schmidt (PhD 1844, Univ of Giessen)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (PhD ??, Univ of Dorpat)
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Arthur Amos Noyes (PhD 1890, Leipzig Univ)
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Georg Bredig (PhD 1894, Leipzig Univ)
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Frederick George Donnan (PhD 1896, Leipzig Univ)
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Earle Radcliffe Caley (PhD 1928, Ohio State Univ)
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Lockhart Burgess “Buck” Rogers (PhD 1942, Princeton Univ)
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David Michael Hercules (PhD 1957, Massachussetts Inst of Technol)
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William E. Swartz, Jr. (PhD 1971, Massachussetts Inst of Technol)
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John Anthony Schreifels (PhD 1979, Univ of South Florida)
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Charles C. Chusuei (PhD 1997, George Mason Univ)
Charles Chusuei (right) with academic great grandfather, David Hercules (left), at Vanderbilt Univ. in Fall 2013.
Nearest Chemistry Nobel Laureate:
3 Steps:
Charles C. Chusuei (Middle Tennessee State Univ)
| (post-doc for)
D. Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M Univ)
| (grad student for)
Michael J. S. Dewar (Univ of Texas at Austin)
| (post-doc for)
Robert Robinson (Univ of Oxford) (1947)
Second-nearest Chemistry Nobel Laureate:
6 Steps:
Charles C. Chusuei (Middle Tennessee State Univ)
| (post-doc for)
D. Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M Univ)
| (grad student for)
Michael J. S. Dewar (Univ of Texas at Austin)
| (trained post-doc)
Arthur R. Lepley (Marshall Univ)
| (grad student for)
Weldon Grant Brown (Univ of Chicago)
| (grad student for)
George Ernest Gibson (Univ of California at Berkeley)
| (trained grad student)
Glenn T. Seaborg (Univ of California at Berkeley)
Charles Chusuei (left) with
Glenn T. Seaborg (right),
the first living person to
have an element in the
Periodic Table named
after him [atomic #106,
‘Seaborgium’] in 1998 at
Texas A&M Univ.