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Chemistry Genealogical Tree University of Michigan, 1839 – Present

P R Jones, R C Taylor

Berzelius Branch – 2

French Connection – 3

Interdisciplinary Roots – 4

Harvard Branch – 5

Liebig Branch – 6

Michigan Branch – 7

University of Michigan - Chemistry, 150th Birthday Celebration, May 10-12, 2007

University of Michigan - Chemistry, 150th Birthday Celebration, May 10-12, 2007 �

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANDepartment of Chemistry

FACULTY GENEALOGY 1836 – Present

Brezelius • French • Harvard • Interdisciplinary • Leibig • Michigan

This set of six “branches” of the UM Chemistry Faculty genealogy requires some explana-tion. It is a record of the professional roots of Michigan chemistry faculty members all the way back to the beginning of the chemistry program in Ann Arbor. Where does such infor-mation originate? First there is the basic list of names. This came from the late Professor Robert Taylor, who, in retirement, became the in-house historian of the department. With sincere dedication, he assembled and organized all the historical materials he could locate, including a full list of faculty.

What is a genealogy, in the case of a group of faculty? It is a record of the profes-sional history of each person. This, in turn, is based upon the highest professional degree earned by the faculty members. Hence, a person is defined according to his/her academic institution where the highest degree was earned, the year of graduation, and the name of the mentor who directed the research and was the major advisor. That much takes care of the “present generation” of faculty members. In order to follow the professional roots to their ultimate origin, we need to know the same information—highest degree, institution, year, mentor—for each past generation as well. Once all that information has been gathered, we can put together a “tree” that traces the faculty member back through his/her professional forefathers. Note that, unlike a family tree, this one entails only one ‘parent” in each gen-eration. Ideally, the source for a genealogy should be primary information: dissertation ab-stracts, original publications, correspondence from the individuals themselves. In the case of living chemists, direct communication is the most reliable source. All of these have been used in the compilation of this UM genealogy.

Several chemistry genealogies have been constructed for US institutions over a pe-riod of about 30 years (examples are Wisconsin, Michigan State, Purdue, and Wayne State). Perhaps the most famous one in Germany places Justus von Liebig as the “father” of a vast number of descendants, whose roots can be traced back to this renowned 19th-century chem-ist. In most of the early US chemistry genealogies, their compilers came to the conclusion that all chemists are descended from a very few “original” mentors; and so, these genealo-

gies typically consist of only three branches. You will see that the Michigan family is broken down into six branches, and one of those is the Michigan subset:; that is because several chemists hired by the department either received their highest degree at UM or earned it at another institu-tion under a mentor who was a UM graduate—and all can be traced back to A.B. Prescott.

This first attempt at a full UM chemistry genealogy must be called “Version 1.0.” Although every attempt has been made to verify the information, there may well be errors to be corrected; and, like any family, new generations come along, so the tree is destined to become outdated very quickly. “Version 1.0” does not yet list all assistant professors past and present. These will be added in future versions. The photos are from the Bentley Historical Library or Chemistry Depart-ment archives and can be used only with permission.


R CElderfieldMIT, 1930

T L DavispHarvard, 1917

P C FreerMunich, 1887

W H Perkin, JrWuerzburg, 1882

J WislicenusZuerich, 1861

W H HeintzBerlin, 1844

J T GrovesColumbia, 1969

R C D BreslowHarvard, 1955

KPC VollhardtU College, 1972

D T LongoneCornell, 1958

A T BlomquistIllinois, 1932

J P MarinoHarvard, 1967

R B WoodwardMIT, 1937

A A AshdownMIT, 1924

J F NorrisJohns Hopkins, 1895

H B Mark, JrDuke, 1960

W C VosburghColumbia, 1919

J M NelsonColumbia, 1907

M T BogertColumbia, 1897

C F ChandlerGoettingen, 1856

M M MartinIllinois, 1958

C S MarvelIllinois, 1920

W A Noyes, SrJohns Hopkins, 1882

C C MelocheWisconsin, 1914

V LenherPenn, 1898

E F SmithGoettingen, 1876

H HuebnerGoettingen, 1859

P G RasmussenMich State, 1964

C H BrubakerMIT, 1952

R C YoungMIT, 1929

W R RoushHarvard, 1977

M R StilesHarvard, 1954

W R VaughanHarvard, 1944

J L WarnellIowa State, 1955

H GilmanHarvard, 1918

C G OverbergerIllinois, 1944

D S WeissColumbia, 1969

N J TurroCalTech, 1963

G S HammondHarvard, 1947

P D BartlettHarvard, 1931

P G M WutsNorthwestern, 1978

J A MarshallMichigan, 1960

R E IrelandWisconsin, 1955

W S JohnsonHarvard, 1940

L F FieserHarvard, 1924

J B ConantHarvard, 1917

E P KohlerJohns Hopkins, 1892

I RemsenGoettingen, 1870

R FittigGoettingen, 1858

H F P LimprichtGoettingen, 1850

F WOEHLERHeidelberg (MD), 1823 J J BERZELIUS

Stockholm, 1802

M A A ClyneCambridge, 1963

R G W NorrishCambridge, 1924

E K RidealBonn, 1913

A FischerTH Aachen, 1904

A ClassenBerlin(?), 1864

F L SonnenscheinBerlin, 1851

H RoseKiel, 1821

D H StedmanEast Anglia, 1967

B A ThrushCambridge

R A OlofsonHarvard, 1961

BERZELIUS BRANCH

A J MatzgerBerkeley, 1997

P J GarrattColumbia, 1964

T J KatzHarvard, 1959


C L BERTHOLLET1800

M KoreedaTohoku, 1970

K NakanishiNagoya, 1954

Y HirataTokyo

B KubotaToulouse

P SabatierColl France, 1880

M BerthelotColl France, 1854

A J BalardMontpelier, ca 1825

L N VAQUELINParis, 1789

J E BerardArcueil, ca 1811

H A LaitenenMinnesota, 1940

I M KolthoffUtrecht, 1918

N SchoorlAmsterdam, 1902

A FranchimontLeyden, 1871

C A WurtzStrassburg, 1843

J B A DumasParis, 1832

L J ThenardParis, 1797

M E MeyerhoffSUNY Buffalo, 1979

G A RechnitzIllinois, 1961

M D MorrisHarvard, 1964

J J LinganeMinnesota, 1938

J R BarkerCarnegie-Mellon, 1969

J V MichaelRochester, 1963

H L LeCHATELIER1887

W A Noyes, JrSorbonne, 1920

D CoucouvanisCase, 1967

J P Fackler, JrMIT, 1960

F A CottonHarvard, 1955

G WilkinsonImp College, 1946

H V A BriscoeLondon, 1909

T E ThorpeHeidelberg, 1868

R BunsenGoettingen, 1830

F StrohmeyerGoettingen, 1800 A F FOURCROY

Paris, 1760

FRENCH CONNECTION


C L RulfsPurdue, 1949

P J ElvingPrinceton, 1937

L W McCayPrinceton(ScD), 1883

O C JohnsonOberlin(MS), 1877

O Heer (botany)

N H FurmanPrinceton, 1917

A B StevensBern, 1905

W O A TschirchFreiburg, 1881 (botany)

S SchwendenerZuerich, 1856 (botany)

J O SchlotterbeckBern, 1896

R SensionBerkeley, 1986

H L StraussColumbia, 1960

G K FraenkelCornell, 1949

A Sommerfeld(physics)

W L BeuschleinU Washington, 1925 (Chem Eng)

P J DebyeMunich, 1908

L B TownsendArizona State, 1965

R K RobinsOregon State, 1952

C V RamanInd Inst, Madras(MA), 1907 (physics)

D HoughtonRPI(BS), 1829

A E WhiteBrown(AB), 1907

A H WhiteMichigan(AB), 1893Michigan(BS), 1904

B E ChristensenU Washington, 1932

A RamamoorthyInd Inst, Kampur, 1990

P R NarasimhanInd Inst, Madras,

T J WrampelmeierMichigan(BA), 1878

R S KrishnanInd Inst, Madras

B J EvansChicago, 1969

S S HafnerETHZuerich, 1958

P NiggliU Zuerich, 1912 (mineralogy)

F-H LavesU Zuerich, 1929

J U GrugbenmannU Zuerich, 1886 (geology)

G A KenngottBreslau, 1842 (mineralogy)

A HeimT I Zuerich, 1869 (geology)

N BowditchHarvard (no degree)

C R BurriU Zuerich, 1926

S M BlinderHarvard, 1958

W E MoffitOxford, 1948

J H Van VleckHarvard, 1922 (physics)

C A CoulsonCambridge, 1936

J E Lennard-JonesCambridge, 1924

Fowler Lamb

E C KembleHarvard, 1917 (physics)

BridgmanHarvard, 1908 (physics)

SabineHarvard, 1890 (physics)

TrowbridgeHarvard, 1865 (physics)

LoveringHarvard, 1833 (math)

B PeirceHarvard, 1829 (math)

INTERDISCIPLINARY ROOTS

E GevaHebrew U, 1996

R KosloffHebrew U, 1974

G G HallCambridge

R D LevineNottingham, 1964

Z ChenBerkeley, 1998

N WalterDarmstadt 1995

M EigenGoettingen, 1951

A EuckenBerlin, 1906

H W NernstWuerzburg, 1887

F W KohlrauschGoettingen (physics)


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