This is a genealogy of astrophysics PhD students and their advisors. In each paragraph, the advisor appears first and the students follow. If you have any data to contribute to this list, please send mail to maron@tapir.caltech.edu.

Anaximander: Pythagoras

Aristotle: Alexander the Great

Eric Blackman: Rob Selkowitz

Batchelor: H. Keith Moffat

Roger Blandford: Lars Hernquist, Roger Romani, Chris Kochanek, David Hogg, Maxim Lyutikov, Ruben Krasnopolsky, Avery Broderick

Bunsen: Dmitri Mendeleev

Benjamin Chandran: Tim Dennis

Subramanian Chandrasekhar: Russell Kulsrud, Larry Helfer, Jeremiah Ostriker

Sterling Colgate: Vladimir Pariev

Steven Cowley: Brian Albright, Brian Fong, Greg Howes

Pierre Curie: Paul Langevin

P.A.M. Dirac: Subramanian Chandrasekhar

Thomas Edison: Nikola Tesla

Ericsson: Alfred Nobel

Gregory Falkovich: Michael Chertkov, Evgeny Balkovsky, Alexander Fouxon

Enrico Fermi: Owen Chamberlain, Chen Yang

George Field: Steven Perrenod, Paul Shapiro, Phyllis Lugger, Chris McKee, Mitchell Berger, David Spergel, Boqi Wang, Sean Carroll, Dan Garretson, Eric Blackman, Hongsong Chou

Walter Fletcher: Archibald Hill

Ralph Fowler: P.A.M Dirac

Adam Frank: Alexei Poludnenko

Guillermo Garcia-Segura: Eva Villaver

Thomas Gold: Peter Goldreich, Nanielou Dieter, Frank Drake, Robert Davis

Peter Goldreich: Richard McCray, Dick DeFouw, Douglas Keeley, John Kwan, Bill Ward, Don Strange, Jim Roberts, Anneila Sargent, Philip Nicholson, Charles Alcock, Jack Wisdom, James Fillmore, Carolyn Porco, Pawan Kumar, Greg Willette, Andreas Reisenegger, Yanqin Wu, Eugene Chiang, Jason Maron, Yoram Lithwick, Alison Farmer

Alyssa Goodman: Hector Arce

Werner Heisenberg: Edward Teller

Helmholtz: Henry Rowland, Heinrich Hertz, Max Planck, Wilhelm Wein, Pyotr Lebedev

Lars Hernquist: Anthony Aguirre

Archibald Hill: Ralph Fowler

Hofmann: Crookes

Hubble: Milton Humason

Imhotep (First known scientist, engineer of the first pyramid):

Kepteyn: Jan Hendrik Oort, Willem de Sitter

Ralf Klessen: Anne-Katharina Jappsen

A. N. Kolmogorov: Millionshchikov, Obukhov, Akiva Yaglom, Yakov Sinai, Arnold, Monin

Russell Kulsrud: Robert Dewar, Catherine Cesarski, Ellen Zweibel, Steven Cowley, Stephen Anderson, Benjamin Chandran, Dmitry Uzdensky, Gian Marco Felice, Alex Schekochihin, Troy Carter, Leonid Malyshkin

Kundt: Wilhelm Roentgen

C. C. Lin: Frank Shu

Abraham Loeb: Zoltan Haiman, Eric Woods, Rosalba Perna

Hendrik Lorentz: Pieter Zeeman

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low: Guillermo Garcia-Segura, Akimi Fujita, Yuexing Li, M.K. Ryan Joung, Jeffrey Oishi

Richard Matzner: Pablo Laguna, Anthony Mezzacappa, Deirdre Shoemaker

Richard McCray: Jonathan Arons, Timothy Kallman, Stephen Lepp, Yueming Xu, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Leon Mestel: Donald Lynden-Bell

Ramesh Narayan: Sylvanie Wallington, Rohan Mahadevan, Ann Esin, Eliot Quataert

Nernst: Irving Langmuir

Michael Norman: David Clarke, James Stone, Greg Bryan, Dinshaw Balsara, Henry Neeman, Brian O'Shea,

Carl Oberman: John Krommes

P. J. E. Peebles: Stuart L. Shapiro

Sterl Phinney: M. Coleman Miller, Steinn Sigurdsson, Lin Zuo, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten, Alice C. Quillen, Bradley M.S. Hansen, Sanjoy Mahajan, Glenn Soberman, Derrick Bass, Michael Hartl, Elina Brobeck, Christopher Wegg (list complete)

Max Planck: Walther Bothe

Plato: Aristotle

Alexandre Polyakov: Viktor Gurarie, Stanislav Boldyrev, Viacheslav Rychkov

William Press: Ethan Vishniac, David Spergel

Pupin: Robert Millikan

Lord Rayleigh: Sir William Bragg

Martin Rees: Roger Blandford, Sterl Phinney, Mitchell Begelman

Douglas Richstone: J. Kelly Holley-Bockelman

Leonid Rudakov: Andrei Gruzinov

H. N. Russell: Harlow Shapley, Lyman Spitzer

Ernest Rutherford: Hans Geiger, Mueller, Henry Moseley, Sir James Chadwick, Peter Kapitza, Patrick Blackett

Ed Salpeter: Bruce Draine

Re'em Sari: Margaret Pan

Dimitar Sasselov: Sara Seager, David Heyrovsky

Dennis Sciama: Martin Rees, Steven Hawking, Brandon Carter

Stuart L. Shapiro: Fred Rasio, Dong Lai, Loren Petrich

Harlow Shapley: James Cuffey, Fletcher Watson, Edith Woodward, Walter Miller, Stanley Wyatt, Ivan King

Socrates: Plato

Arnold Sommerfeld: Peter Debye, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Bethe

Lyman Spitzer, Jr.: George Field

Edward Teller: Tsung-Dao Lee

Thales: Anaximander

J. J. Thompson: Ernest Rutherford, Sir George Thompson, Sir Edward Appleton

Kip Thorne: William Morris Kinnersley, Kenneth Charles Jacobs, James Reid Ipser, William Lionel Burke, Clifford Martin Will, Richard H. Price, Bernard Frederick Schutz, Jr., John Joseph Dykla, William Henry Press, Wei-Tou Ni, Saul Arno Teukolsky, David Li Lee, Alan Paige Lightman, Don Nelson Page, Sandor Janos Kovacs, Jr., Carlton Morris Caves, Mark Edward Zimmermann, Richard Alan Flammang, Yekta Gursel, Ian H. Redmount, Douglas Alan Macdonald, Bonny L. Schumaker, Wai-Mo Suen, Lee Samuel Finn, Michael S. Morris, Ulvi Yurtsever, Xiao-He Zhang, Gunnar Klinkhammer, Fernando Echeverria, Garrett Biehle, Eanna Flanagan, Dragoljub Markovic, Theocharis A. Apostolatos, Daniel Kennefick, Fintan Ryan, Scott A. Hughes, Benjamin James Owen, Yuri Levin, Teviet Creighton, Michele Vallisneri, Kashif Alvi, Patricia Purdue. (list complete)

John Todd: Roger Penrose

Joel Tohline: Kimberly New

Ira Wasserman: Lars Bildsten, Robert Nelson, Guy Miller

John Wheeler: Richard Feynman, Kip Thorne

Simon White: Andreas Burkert, Ralf Klessen, Volker Springel

Eugene Wigner: John Bardeen

No advisor (did it all by themselves): Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, Ramanujan

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Great schisms:

Plato: Aristotle