Academic Ancestry
of Paul Frampton

Paul Frampton (PhD 1968 Oxford)

Frampton’s adviser:
John Clayton Taylor (PhD 1955 Cambridge)

Taylor’s co-advisers:
Richard Eden (PhD 1948 Cambridge) 
Abdus Salam (PhD 1952 Cambridge).

Eden’s co-advisers: 
Paul Dirac (PhD 1926 Cambridge)   link.
Werner Heisenberg (PhD 1923 Munich)
Heisenberg’s adviser:
Arnold Sommerfeld (PhD 1891 Konigsberg)

Salam’s adviser: 
Nicholas Kemmer (PhD 1935 Zurich) 
Kemmer’s adviser: 
Wolfgang Pauli (PhD 1921 Munich)
Pauli’s adviser:
Arnold Sommerfeld (PhD 1891 Konigsberg) 
Sommerfeld’s adviser:
Ferdinand Lindemann (PhD 1873 Nurenberg) 
Lindemann’s adviser: 
Felix Klein (PhD 1868 Bonn) 
Klein’s co-advisers:
Julius Plucker (PhD 1823 Marburg) 
Rudolf Lipschitz (PhD 1853 Berlin) 

Plucker’s adviser: 
Christian Gerling (PhD 1812 Gottingen) 
Gerling’s adviser: 
Carl Gauss (PhD 1799 Helsted)   link. 

Lipschitz’s adviser: 
Gustav Dirichlet (PhD 1827 Bonn) 
Dirichlet’s adviser: 
Simeon Poisson (PhD 1802 Paris) 
Poisson’s adviser: 
Joseph Lagrange (PhD 1766 Berlin) 
Lagrange’s adviser: 
Leonard Euler (PhD Basel)   link.

Using the analogy between academic and blood ancestries :
Dirac is my great grandfather.
Euler is my 10-greats grandfather.
Gauss is my 8-greats grandfather.