(last updated: December 19, 2007)
Chemical Genealogy
Professor McCarty first developed the academic genealogy [McCarty, C. N., "Chemical
Genealogy," J. Chem. Educ., 46, 317 (1969)] of the Department of Chemistry in the 1960's, patterning the effort
after that of Virginia Bartow [Bartow, Virginia, J. Chem. Educ., 16, 236 (1939)]. The facility has been invaluable for the study of the history of chemistry
and to show the interrelationships in the academic chemistry community.
In recent years, the facility has been maintained by Jim Oliver, Chemistry Librarian,
and Bill Draper, Department of Chemistry Graphic Artist.
We became aware, in early February 2002, that an extensive "Chemical Genealogy Database"
had been made available on the WWW (the URL is: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/) by Vera V. Mainz and Gregory S. Girolami. This is a wonderful resource we have recently
referenced to verify, correct and extend our information. Thank you Vera and Gregory!
Other examples of Chemistry and Scientific Genealogies available on the WWW include
those from: University of Connecticut (organic chemists), University of Massachusetts, and North Dakota State University, Fargo (Mathematics). Examples of on-line biographies of chemists include those from: Peter Morris and Gerry Moss at Queen Mary, University of London, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. In addition, there are on-line portrait galleries of chemists (Edgar Fahs Smith
Memorial Collection, and physicists (University of California, Santa Barbara).
A subset of the MSU Chemistry Academic Genealogy [containing only those lines which
lead to current, recently retired, or recently deceased MSU Chemistry faculty members]
has been plotted and is available to view and/or download as a PDF file. This will print on 8.5 x 11 paper if one chooses 'fit to page' when printing from
Acrobat -- else it will print only a portion of its original 72 x 24 inch area that
will fit onto a sheet of paper.
The lines trace each individual to the professor under whose guidance the Ph.D. or
highest degree was earned. Reported for each individual are, when available and applicable:
the years of birth and death; the year and instutution for the PhD or highest degree;
and the years on the faculty at Michigan State University. The names of those ever
on the MSU Department of Chemistry faculty are shown in green and Nobel Laureates are shown in italics.
The Chemical Genealogy "family tree" can be accessed by:
scrolling down to view the entire tree, to see the relationships between individuals;
and/or clicking on the name of a present or former MSU Chemistry faculty member to
see the individual's Chemical Genealogy and a list of his/her students earning advanced
degrees at MSU.
John Allison
Neal Russell Armstrong
Bruce Alan Averill
Gerald Thomas Babcock
Gregory Lynn Baker
Charles Dodson Ball
Richard Louis Bateman
Warren Findlay Beck
Kris Arvid Berglund
Frederick Michael Bernthal
Abigail Anne Bickley
Ralph K Birdwhistell
Gary John Blanchard
Babak Borhan
Joan Blanchette Broderick
William E Broderick
Carl Hess Brubaker Jr
Merlin L Bruening
Duane Frueh Burow
Richard U Byerrum
Chi Kwong Chang
Arthur J Clark
Kim Clarke Cohn
Kenneth James Coskran
Stanley Ross Crouch
Robert Isaac Cukier
Marcos Dantus
Karen Margaret Draths (Frost)
Frederick R Duke
Kim Renee Dunbar
Frederick B Dutton
James L Dye
Harry Arthur Eick
Mohamed Ashraf El-Bayoumi
Christie George Enke
Dwight Tarbell Ewing
James L Fairley Jr
Donald George Farnum
Michael Feig
John Wesley Frost
Gordon Lynn Galloway
Otto Alphonse Gansow
Simon J Garrett
John Gerard Gaudiello
James Harold Geiger
Irene Anna Gennick (Cesa)
Victor Gilpin
Gordon Laverne Goerner
Robert Howard Grubbs
Ralph L Guile
James L Hall
Klaas Hallenga
James Beclone Hamilton
Robert Nelson Hammer
James Francis Harrison
Harold Hart
Bruce E Hartsuch
Robert Max Herbst
James David Hoeschele
Rawle I Hollingsworth
Carl Arthur Hoppert
Frederick Herbert Horne
Xuefei Huang
Katharine C Hunt
Paul M Hunt
Ralph Chase Huston
James Edward [Ned] Jackson
Arthur Daniel Jones III
Mercouri Gregorio Kanatzidis
Gerasimos John Karabatsos
Ahsan U Khan
Gordon Leslie Kilgour
Jack B Kinsinger
Peter Thomas Kissinger
Cecil C Langham
Maurice G Larian
Eugene LeGoff
Jeffrey Scott Ledford
Elmer E Leininger
George Edgar Leroi
William Carl Lewis
Hans A Lillevik
William T Lippincott Jr
Robert Edward Maleczka Jr
Paul Francis Mantica Jr
O'Neal Mason
Keith B McCall
Charles Norman McCarty
John L McCracken
James Kenneth McCusker
Victoria Lynn McGuffin
William Charles McHarris
Gordon A Melson
David Joseph Morrissey
Boris Musulin
George Vasily Nazaroff
Richard Selindh Nicholson
Daniel George Nocera
Aaron Lynn Odom
Piotr Piecuch
Thomas Joseph Pinnavaia
John J Pitha
Alexander I Popov
Lynmarie Agnes Posey
Laurence Larkin Quill
Michael William Rathke
Gavin E Reid
William H Reusch
Max Tofield Rogers
Barnett Rosenberg
Morley Egerton Russell
Robert D Schuetz
Richard Henry Schwendeman
David Knight Scott
Milton R Smith III
Lynn Robert Sousa
John C Speck Jr
Steven Tremble Spees Jr
Dana M Spence
James C Sternberg
John Robert Stille
Kenneth G Stone Jr
Greg M Swain
Elbert C Tabor
Steven Paul Tanis
Jetze J Tepe
Andrew Timnick
Alexander Tulinsky
Peter John Wagner Jr
Kevin Duane Walker
Jack Throck Watson
Michael John Weaver
Walter Eugene Weibrecht
David Paul Weliky
William Dean Wulff
James P Yesinowski
Matthew John Zabik