Here is a fun side-project showing my academic lineage - a timeline of supervisors and their supervisors.

Yusuf A. Bhatti

University of Canterbury - Physics

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Laura E. Revell

University of Canterbury - Chemistry

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Bryce E. Williamson

Australian National University - Physical Chemistry

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Thomas R. Welberry

University College London - Chemical Crystallography

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Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale

University College London - X-ray Crystallography

1903 – 1971

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William Henry Bragg

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1862 – 1942

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Edward John Routh

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1831 – 1907

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William Hopkins

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1793 – 1866

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Adam Sedgwick

University of Cambridge - Mathematics / Theology

1785 – 1873

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Thomas Jones

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1756 – 1807

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Thomas Postlethwaite

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1731 – 1798

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Stephen Whisson

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1710 – 1783

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Walter Taylor

University of Cambridge - Mathematics / Classics

1700 – 1744

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Robert Smith

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1689 – 1768

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Roger Cotes

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1682 – 1716

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Isaac Newton

University of Cambridge - Mathematics

1642 – 1727

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Isaac Barrow

University of Cambridge - Mathematics / Theology

1630 – 1677

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Vincenzo Viviani

Mathematics

1622 – 1703

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Galileo Galilei

Università di Pisa - Mathematics / Natural Philosophy

1564 – 1642

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Ostilio Ricci

Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence - Mathematics

1540 – 1603

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Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Mathematics / Engineering

1500 – 1557