Guillaume F. Rouelle
1703-1770
Torbern O. Bergman
1735-1784
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The Faculty Genealogy shows the academic lineage, based primarily on Ph.D. adviser, of faculty members of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. Most of the known faculty appointed since the department was founded in 1883 are represented. The site includes:
- All active and retired or Emeritus faculty
- All deceased faculty who were active, retired, or Emeritus at the time of death
- Selected departed faculty, mainly those who were in the department for eight years or longer.
- For others, see the list of Short-term appointees not in the genealogy.
Academic lineage is open to interpretation. Before the 20th century, scientists often did not have formal academic advisers as they do today. Several mentors may have been influential in directing a particular chemist's early career and course of study. Some chemists, such as Lavoisier, were extremely influential, but never formally instructed students. In selecting the primary mentor, emphasis has been given to overall influence and to traditional lineage interpretations. Where useful we have included lines to multiple mentors and notes explaining their relationships.
- Most UT faculty trace back to the French apothecary Guillaume-François Rouelle, who founded, along with Lavoisier, the French school of chemistry; his descendants were Berthollet, Gay-Lussac, and later Liebig, Bunsen, and Cooke.
- Some faculty descend from Swedish chemist Torbern O. Bergman, whose most famous descendants were Afzelius, Berzelius, and Wöhler.
- A few faculty descend from a line of famous Cambridge crystallographers and physicists, including J.J. Thomson, James Chadwick, William H. Bragg, and Ernest Rutherford.
- It is a sign of chemistry's increasing interdisciplinarity that a number of recently appointed faculty members do not trace back to the main chemistry lineages at all. Their ancestors came from diverse fields such as physics, biology, and computer science.
The full wall chart showing all the lineages and their interconnections is displayed in the Chemistry Library. A zoom-able image version of the chart is viewable on this site. Individual faculty charts are listed to the right.
LEGEND
Entries in the genealogy conform to one of these formats:
- Currently appointed or Emeritus professor:
John Q. Professor
PhD School, Year
UT: Year Started-
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- Deceased UT professor:
I. M. Longgone
PhD School, Year
UT: Year Started-Death†
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In the case of emeritus faculty who later died, the date of death is used, not the date of retirement.
- Faculty who left UT for other positions or retired without emeritus status have an end date in the box, but no †.
- Other Codes:
 PhD adviser
 Studied with or influenced by
 Nobel Prize Winner
SOURCES
The Chemical Genealogy is an ongoing project by the staff of the Mallet Chemistry Library. It was begun in the 1970s by Aubrey Skinner, longtime Mallet librarian, and has been regularly expanded and updated since. Please report any errors or questions to the Chemistry Library for investigation.
Useful Web Resources:
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- A-L
- Robbin C. Anderson
- Eric V. Anslyn
- Dean R. Appling
- Gilbert H. Ayres
- James R. Bailey
- Philip S. Bailey
- Paul F. Barbara
- Allen J. Bard
- Jeffrey Barrick
- Nathan L. Bauld
- Clifford A.L. Becker
- Mark Berg
- Richard B. Bernstein
- Isaac Bersuker R
- Christopher W. Bielawski
- James E. Boggs
- Jennifer S. Brodbelt
- Karen S. Browning
- Alan Campion
- James R. Chelikowsky
- Alan H. Cowley
- David J. Cox
- Richard M. Crooks
- Jefferson C. Davis
- Raymond E. Davis
- Michael J. S. Dewar
- Guangbin Dong
- Robert Eakin
- Ron Elber
- Andrew Ellington
- Edgar Everhart
- Larry R. Faulkner
- William A. Felsing
- Bennie A. Ferrone
- Ilya Finkelstein
- Karl Folkers
- Gerhard Fonken
- Marye Ann Fox
- Richard Friesner
- Richard Fuchs
- William C. Gardiner
- Pete D. Gardner
- Clifford S. Garner
- John C. Gilbert
- David E. Graham
- Norman Hackerman
- Marvin L. Hackert
- Boyd A. Hardesty
- Henry W. Harper
- Lewis Hatch
- Graeme Henkelman
- Henry R. Henze
- David W. Hoffman
- James A. Holcombe
- Bradley J. Holliday
- Simon Humphrey
- Brent L. Iverson
- Clyde R. Johnson
- Kenneth A. Johnson
- Richard A. Jones
- Adrian Keatinge-Clay
- G. Barrie Kitto
- Thomas Kodadek
- Denis A. Kohl
- Michael J. Krische
- Evan P. Kyba
- Richard J. Lagow
- Joseph J. Lagowski
- Alan M. Lambowitz
- David A. Laude
- Glenn S. Lewandos
- Sang-Hyun Lim
- Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu
- Harry L. Lochte
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- M-Z
- Philip D. Magnus
- Lara K. Mahal
- Dmitrii E. Makarov
- John W. Mallet
- Thomas Mallouk
- Edward M. Marcotte
- Stephen F. Martin
- Andreas Matouschek
- F. A. Matsen
- John T. McDevitt
- Stephen A. Monti
- Leon O. Morgan
- Petr Munk
- W. A. Noyes Jr.
- Brian L. Pagenkopf
- Rowland Pettit
- Herbert M. Pickett
- Joanne M. Ravel
- Lester J. Reed
- Royston M. Roberts
- Jon D. Robertus
- Lynn B. Rodewald
- Michael J. Rose
- Peter J. Rossky
- Rick Russell
- Eugene P. Schoch
- Jonathan L. Sessler
- William H. R. Shaw
- Jason B. Shear
- William Shive
- Ben Shoulders R
- Dionicio Siegel
- Stanley H. Simonsen
- Leon J. Slutsky
- Esmond Snell
- John F. Stanton
- Keith J. Stevenson
- Philip L. Stotter
- Basil I. Swanson
- John J. G. Tesmer
- Roy C. Thompson
- David A. Vanden Bout
- Charles G. Wade
- William H. Wade
- Kuan Wang
- George W. Watt
- Lauren J. Webb
- Stephen E. Webber
- John M. (Mike) White
- James Whitesell
- Craig Wilcox
- Katherine Willets
- Roger J. Williams
- C. Grant Willson
- Robb Wilson L
- Alan S. Wingrove
- William Woodruff
- Robert E. Wyatt
- Y. Whitney Yin
- Yan Zhang
- Xiaoyang Zhu
- Daniel M. Ziegler
R - Research scientist
L - Lecturer
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