Academic Genealogy for Andrew J. Hanson
From the
Mathematics Academic Genealogy site, one can trace my academic heritage
going back to Gauss via two paths:
Gauss:Bessel:Scherk:Kummer:Runge
Gauss:Gudermann:Weierstrass:Runge
 
Runge:Born:Weisskopf
Than:Buchbock:Polanyi:Wigner:Weisskopf
Weisskopf:Huang:Hanson
Notation: (Helmstedt 1799) means that Gauss received
his academic degree
at the University of Helmstedt in 1799,
and, at Gottingen, he advised Bessel
in 1810 and Gudermann in 1832. Then Bessel advised Scherk who
advised
Kummer, while Gudermann advised Weierstrass. Kummer and
Weierstrass,
from different generations, then
co-advised Runge. Runge advised Max Born,
and then Born and
Wigner (from his own lineage) co-advised Viktor Weisskopf.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Helmstedt 1799)
|| Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Gottingen 1810)
|| Christoph Gudermann (Gottingen 1832)
- Heinrich Scherk (Universitat Berlin 1823) ||
Karl Weierstrass (Konigsberg 1854)
- Ernst Eduard Kummer (Halle-Wittenberg 1831)
- [Runge co-advisor: Karl Weierstrass
(Konigsberg 1854),
advised by Gudermann, who
was advised by Gauss]
- Carl Runge (Berlin 1880)
- Max Born (Gottingen 1906)
- [Weisskopf co-advisor: Eugene Wigner (TU Berlin 1925):
advised by Michael Polanyi, who was advised by
Gusztav Buchbock,
who was advised by Karoly Than]
- Viktor Weisskopf (Gottingen 1931)
- Kerson Huang (MIT 1953)
- Andrew J. Hanson (MIT 1971)
Maybe someday I'll get my own graph, but this one by happy coincidence
matches a large section of my genealogy due to the prolific joint
advising history of Kummer and Weierstrass in Berlin.