JSB's Academic Genealogy: my advisor's advisor, and so on

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Joel Primack (Stanford, 1970)
Sidney Drell (University of Illinois, 1949)
Sidney M. Dancoff (UC Berkeley, 1936)
Robert Oppenheimer (University of Göttingen, Germany, 1927)
Max Born (University of Göttingen, Germany, 1907)
Carl Runge (University of Berlin , 1880)
Karl Weierstrass (University of Königsberg, 1854)
Christof Gudermann (Georg-Ausust-Universitat Gottingen, 1841)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Universität Helmstedt, 1799)
Johann Friedrich Pfaff (Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1786)
Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (Universitat Leipzig, 1739)
Christian August Hausen (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1713)
Johann Wichmannshausen (Universitat Leipzig, 1685)
Otto Mencke (Universitat Leipzig, 1668)
Mencke's advisor seems to be unknown.


JSB's Academic Siblings: Fellow students advised or co-advised by Primack (at UCSC) who currently work in astrophysics:

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Ricardo Flores (PhD 1984; Professor, Physics, UMSL)
Kim Griest (PhD 1987; Professor, Physics, UCSD)
Rachel Somerville (PhD1997; Associate Astronomer, STScI)
Ari Maller (PhD 1999; Assistant Professor, Physics, NYCCT)
Risa Wechslser (PhD 2001; Assitant Professor, Physics, Stanford)
TJ Cox (PhD 2004; Keck Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Greg Novak (PhD 2008; Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton)


JSB's Academic Descendants: UCI PhD Students

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Joel Berrier (PhD 2008; Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Pomona College)


Former Postdocs who have now moved to greener pastures:
    Louie Strigari (@UCI 2005-2008 w/ Kaplinghat;  Hubble Fellow, Stanford)

A few other peoople JSB had the pleasure of working with when they were students (but did not formally advise):
    Brant Robertson (Spitzer Fellow, Chicago);
    Savvas Koushiappas (Asst. Professor, Brown);
    Andrew Zentner (Asst. Professor, Pittsburgh);
    Risa Wechslser (Asst. Professor, Stanford)