Academic Lineage of LWE

 

  1. Romain Fleury — Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2015
    Dissertation: Breaking Temporal Symmetries in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
    Supervisor: Andrea Alù.

  2. Andrea Alù — Ph.D., Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2007
    Dissertation: On metamaterials and cloaking theory.
    Mentors: Lucio Vegni and Nader Engheta.
  3. Nader Engheta — Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1982
    Dissertation: On the Radiation Patterns of Interfacial Antennas
    Supervisor: Charles H. Papas.
  4. Charles H. Papas — Ph.D., Harvard University, 1948
    Dissertation: A Theoretical Investigation of Spherically-Capped Conical Antennas
    Supervisor: Ronold W. P. King.
  5. Ronold W. P. King — Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1932
    Dissertation: Characteristics of Vacuum Tube Circuits Having Distributed Constants at Ultra-Radio Frequencies. Inventor of the inverted F antenna, used widely in mobile phones.
    Supervisor: Edward Bennett.
  6. Edward Bennett — Ph.D., Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), 1897
    Dissertation / work: Research on spark-gap transmitters
    Supervisor / mentor: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden.
  7. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden — Studies at McGill University, no Ph.D.
    Major works: Pioneer in wireless telegraphy, amplitude modulation, and early radio broadcasting.
    Mentor / professional supervisor: Thomas Edison (Fessenden worked as Edison’s assistant in the 1880s).
  8. Thomas Edison — Autodidact, no formal degree
    Major works: Phonograph, practical incandescent lamp, electrical power distribution systems.
    Intellectual influence: Inspired by the works of Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell (though Edison had little formal training in mathematics).
  9. Michael Faraday — Autodidact, no Ph.D.
    Major works: Experimental Researches in Electricity (series of papers, 1839–1855), discovery of electromagnetic induction, electrolysis laws, invention of the electric motor; popular works such as Chemical Manipulation (1827) and The Chemical History of a Candle (1861).
    Mentor / master: Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution.
  10. Humphry Davy — Chemist and natural philosopher, no doctoral thesis
    Major works: Discovery of several elements (K, Na, Ca, Mg, etc.), invention of the Davy safety lamp, early studies of electrochemistry.
    Mentor / patron: Thomas Beddoes (who employed him at the Pneumatic Institution).
  11. Thomas Beddoes — Physician and chemist, educated at Oxford and Edinburgh
    Major works: Founder of the Pneumatic Institution, medical pioneer in gas therapy.
    Mentor: Joseph Black (professor of chemistry at Edinburgh, discoverer of carbon dioxide).
  12. Joseph Black — M.D., University of Edinburgh, 1754
    Dissertation: De humore acido a cibis orto et magnesia alba (On the Acid Humour Arising from Food and White Magnesia)
    Major works: Discovery of carbon dioxide, concepts of latent heat and specific heat.
    Mentor: William Cullen.
  13. William Cullen — M.D., University of Edinburgh, 1740
    Dissertation: De Ictero (On Jaundice)
    Major works: Foundational figure of the Edinburgh Medical School; textbooks such as First Lines of the Practice of Physic.
    Mentors: Robert Whytt (physiology), and Andrew Plummer (chemistry, who himself studied under Herman Boerhaave at Leiden).
  14. Andrew Plummer — Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh
    Mentor: Herman Boerhaave (Leiden University).
  15. Herman Boerhaave — M.D., Leiden University, 1689
    Dissertation: De distinctione mentis a corpore
    Major works: One of the most influential European physicians of the 18th century, systematizer of medical teaching, widely regarded as a “teacher of Europe.”