Rabi, Ramsey and now Wineland. A three generation "academic family" where each has received the Nobel Prize. I'm not sure if that's happened before...
Serge Haroche's advisor was Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, also a Nobel Prize winner.
Serge Haroche's advisor was Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, also a Nobel Prize winner.
Turns out there's a few other academic families (that's PhD advisor lineage, not genetic) that have received >2 Nobel Prizes.
Of note there are 2 other direct Nobel-to-Nobel lineages of 3 generations:
1) I. I. Rabi -> Julian Schwinger->{Ben R. Mottelson, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy Glauber, Walter Kohn, Samuel Chao Chung Ting}
2) Eugene Wigner->John Bardeen->J. Robert Schrieffer
Rabi seems to be a good academic grandfather.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_genealogy_of_theoretic...
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