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Ph.D. Family Tree

My Academic Genealogy
(my advisor's advisor, and so on)

An extended version of this can be found on Piet van der Kruit's web pages. Special thanks to Carlo Beenakker, who provided the tree prior to van Rees.

Samuel König
(studied in Basel with the Bernoulli's, without receiving a PhD)
Antonius Brugmans
De phaenomeno
Franeker, 24 May 1749 (the Frisian university of Franeker no longer exists)
Johannes Theodorus Rossijn
De tonitru et fulmine ex nova electricitatis theoria deducendis
Franeker, 10 December 1762
Gerard Moll
Utrecht, 28 October 1815 (studied in Amsterdam with Jan Hendrik van Swinden; the PhD was awarded "honoris causa" and hence no thesis was submitted.)
Richard van Rees
De celeritate soni per fluida elastica propagati
Utrecht, 17 December 1819
Cornelis Hubertus Carolus Grinwis
Distributione fluidi electrici in superficie conductoris, or De verdeeling der elektriciteit over het oppervlak eens geleiders
Utrecht, 3 July 1858
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Onderzoek der trillende platte vliezen (Study of vibrating flat membranes)
Utrecht, 24 June 1875
Pieter Johannes van Rhijn
Derivation of the change of colour with distance and apparent magnitude together with a new determination of the mean parallaxes of the stars with given magnitude and proper motion
Groningen, 9 July 1915
Jan Hendrik Oort
The stars of high velocity
Groningen, 1 May 1926
Pieter Corijnus van der Kruit
Evidence for Past Activity in the Galactic Nucleus
Leiden, 7 October 1971
Roelof Sybe de Jong
Spiral Galaxies | The light and color distributions in the optical in near-infrared
Groningen, 24 March 1995

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