Academic Genealogy
John Argyropoulos
(Univ. of Fadua, 1444)
He was a lecturer, philosopher, and humanist, one of the émigré Greek scholars
who pioneered the revival of classical Greek learning in 15th-century Italy.
Leonardo da Vinci
(Univ. of Fadua)
He was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance
who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer,
scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
Marsilio Ficino
(Univ. of Fluorence, 1462)
He was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most
influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.
He coined the term 'Platonic love'.
Angelo Poliziano
(Univ. of Fluorence, 1477)
He was an Italian poet, humanist, and philologist.
Generally considered the greatest among the Italian poets of the 15th century.
Scipione Forteguerri
(Univ. of Fluorence, 1493)
Known as Carteromaco
He was an Italian grammarian and humanist.
Girolamo Aleandro
(Univ. of Padua, 1508)
An Italian cardinal
He headed opposition to Martin Luther.
Rutger Rescius
(Univ. Paris, 1513)
A humanist and first professor of Greek and Leuven's College Trilingual
René Drouyn
(Paris Faculty of Medicine, ?)
Jean Tagault
(Paris Faculty of Medicine, 1522)
Jean Tagault was an important surgeon and academician
in Paris during the first half of the sixteenth century.
Jacques Dubois
(Paris Faculty of Medicine, 1530)
A French anatomist
He was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey.
Johann Winter von Andernach
(Paris Faculty of Medicine, 1532)
He was a German Renaissance physician, university professor, humanist, translator of ancient,
mostly medical works, and writer of his own medical, philological and humanities works.
Guillaume Rondelet
(Paris Faculty of Medicine, ?)
1507-1566
His major work was a lengthy treatise on marine animals that
became a standard reference work for about a century afterwards.
Petrus Ryff
(Univ. of Montpellier, 1557)
known for his classification of psychiatric diseases,
and the first to describe an intracranial tumour
Petrus Ryff
(Univ. of Basel, 1584)
Medicine, mathematics, astronomy
Emmanuel Stupanus
(Univ. of Basel, 1613)
Medicine
Franciscus Sylvius
(Univ. of Basel, 1637)
He founded the first academic chemical laboratory
Known for 'Sylvian fissure'
Burchard de Volder
(Leiden Univ., 1664)
A Dutch physician
Herman Boerhaave
(Leiden Univ., 1690)
Founder of clinical teaching and modern academic hospital
His motto was Simplex sigillum veri; simplicity is the sign of truth
Andrew Plummer
(Leiden Univ., 1722)
He developed ideas on the attractive and repulsive forces involved in chemical affinity
William Cullen
(Univ. of Glasgow, 1740)
Central figure in Scottish enlightenment
Author of popular medical textbook
'First Lines of the Practice of Physic'
He invented the basis of modern refrigeration
Joseph Black
(Univ. of Edinburgh, 1754)
Discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide
Benjamin Rush
(Univ. of Edinburgh, 1768)
A 'Founding Father of the United States'
who signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence
James Woodhouse
(Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1792)
Robert Hare
(Univ. of Pennsylvania, -)
Development of the 'galvanic deflagrator'
, a type of voltaic battery
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
(Justus-Liebig-Univ. Gießen, 1841)
Organic synthesis
Hofmann rearrangement
Hofmann elimination
Hofmann voltameter
Hofmann–Löffler reaction
Hofmann–Martius rearrangement
Ball-and-stick model
Benjamin Silliman, Sr.
(Yale Univ., 1796)
The first person to fractionate petroleum by distillation
Josiah Parson Cooke
(Harvard Univ., 1848)
Instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights
Walther Nernst
(Univ. Würzburg, 1887)
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Nernst lamp / Nernst equation
Nernst effect / Nernst heat theorem
Nernst potential / Nernst–Planck equation
Nernst's distribution law
Charles Loring Jackson
(Harvard Univ., 1871)
The first significant organic chemist in the USA
Henry Augustus Torrey
(Harvard Univ., 1875)
Structural organic chemistry
Theodore William Richards
(Harvard Univ., 1888)
Determination of atomic weights
The first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914
Electrochemistry / Thermochemistry
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
PostDoc
Ph.D.
Roger Adams
(Harvard Univ., 1912)
Adams' catalyst
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Samuel Marion McElvain
(Univ. of Illinois, 1923)
Research on the mechanism of the Claisen condensation
Editorial board of JACS (1946-56)
PostDoc
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
(Unvi. Berlin, 1899)
Diels–Alder reaction
Diels–Reese reaction
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1950)
Richard Willstätter
(Unvi. München, 1894)
Plant pigments chlorophyll
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1915)
PostDoc
Daniel S. Kemp
(Harvard Univ., 1964)
Synthesis and conformational analysis of peptides
Gilbert Stork
(Univ. of Wisconsin, 1945)
Stork enamine synthesis
Total synthesis of quinine
Ph.D.
PostDoc
David J. Goldsmith
(Columbia Univ., 1957)
Synthesis of biologically active natural products
Ph.D.
Robert B. Woodward
(MIT, 1937)
Organic chemist
Synthesis of vitamin B12
Nobel prize in chemistry 1965
PostDoc
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
W. Clark Still
(Emory Univ., 1972)
Fluorescing molecular species
Witting-Still rearrangement
Still-Gennari alkenation
Total synthesis of periplanone B and monensin
Flash column chromatography
Computational chemistry ('MarcoModel')
Julius Rebek, Jr.
(MIT, 1970)
Molecular self-assembly
Self-replication
Molecular machine
Molecular recognition
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Franz Sondheimer
(Imperial College, 1948)
Synthesis of [18]annulene
Development of routes to the compounds related both to cortisone and to the sex hormones
Albert Eschenmoser
(ETH, 1952)
Synthesis of heterocyclic natural compounds
Synthesis of vitamin B12
Photochemical 'A/D variant'
Origins of Life research
TNA and artificial nucleic acids
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Jong-In Hong
(Columbia Univ., 1990)
Molecular recognition and supramolecular chemistry
Andrew B. Holmes
(UCL, 1971)
Discovery of electroluminescent polymers
- polymer-based light-emitting devices
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Tae-Hyuk Kwon
(Seoul National Univ., 2006)
Energy recognition
Ph.D.
Deok-Ho Roh
(Ulsan National Institute Science and Technology, UNIST, 2022)
Electronic coupling engineering of conjugated materials
for energy conversion and storage