Academic Genealogy of Chemistry Faculty

• All active and retired/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.

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.
• About thirty faculty descend from Swedish chemist Torbern O. Bergman, whose direct 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; they come from diverse fields such as physics, biology, and computer science.

This site is organized into two sections. The Trees section provides chart images of the complex lineages of major "families" of UT chemists who are linked by a common ancestor. The Individual Genealogies section provides a separate chart for each faculty member, listed on the side of this page.

Currently appointed or retired/Emeritus UT professor:

John Q. Professor PhD School, Year UT: Year Started-

Retired and Emeritus professors are considered still appointed and have an open-ended date. Living Emeritus professors are noted.

Deceased UT professor:

I. M. Longgone PhD School, Year UT: Year Started-Death†

In the case of retired faculty who later died, the date of death is used, not the date of retirement.

Faculty who left UT for other positions have an end date in the box, but no † symbol.

PhD adviser

Studied with or influenced by

Nobel Prize Winner

Go to genealogy tree chart for this person.

* - Currently appointed faculty member
E - Emeritus faculty
R - Currently appointed research scientist
L - Lecturer
o - These faculty members can not be traced back to the main chemical lineages and are not represented in the Genealogy Tree charts.

Useful Web Resources:

• Chemical Genealogy Database, University of Illinois (notes designated as "Mainz")
• Genealogy Trees by John Andraos, York University
• Michigan State University Chemical Genealogy
• Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst Chemistry Genealogy
• North Dakota State University Chemical Genealogy
• Nobelprize.org
• Biographical Database of British Chemists
• Chemical Biography Sources

Robbin C. Anderson

Eric V. Anslyn*

Dean R. Appling*

Gilbert H. Ayres

James R. Bailey

Philip S. Bailey

Paul F. Barbara*

Allen J. Bard*

Nathan L. Bauld E

Clifford A.L. Becker

Mark Berg

Richard B. Bernstein

Isaac Bersuker R

Christopher W. Bielawski*

James E. Boggs E

Jennifer S. Brodbelt*

Karen S. Browning*

Alan Campion*

James R. Chelikowsky* o

Alan H. Cowley*

David J. Cox

Richard M. Crooks*

Jefferson C. Davis

Raymond E. Davis E

Michael J. S. Dewar

Robert Eakin

Ron Elber* o

Andrew Ellington*

Edgar Everhart

Larry R. Faulkner

William A. Felsing

Bennie A. Ferrone

Karl Folkers

Gerhard Fonken E

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 E

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* o

Richard A. Jones*

Adrian Keatinge-Clay*

G. Barrie Kitto*

Thomas Kodadek

Denis A. Kohl*

Michael J. Krische*

Evan P. Kyba

Richard J. Lagow E

Joseph J. Lagowski E

Alan M. Lambowitz* o

David A. Laude*

Glenn S. Lewandos

Sang-Hyun Lim* o

Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu*

Harry L. Lochte

Philip D. Magnus*

Lara K. Mahal

Dmitrii E. Makarov* o

John W. Mallet

Thomas Mallouk

Edward M. Marcotte*

Stephen F. Martin*

F. A. Matsen

John T. McDevitt

Stephen A. Monti*

Leon O. Morgan

Petr Munk E

W. A. Noyes Jr.

Brian L. Pagenkopf

Rowland Pettit

Herbert M. Pickett o

Joanne M. Ravel E

Lester J. Reed E

Royston M. Roberts

Lynn B. Rodewald

Jon D. Robertus*

Peter J. Rossky*

Rick Russell* o

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 o

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 E

John M. (Mike) White

James Whitesell

Craig Wilcox

Katherine Willets* o

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