The Chemical Genealogy of Michelle Christine Foster

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)

L.L.B., 1764, Paris

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Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet (1746-1780)

M.D., Paris, 1770, collaborated with Lavoisier

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Claude-Louis Berthollet (1788-1822)

M.D., Turin, 1768, M.D., Paris, 1778

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Joseph-Louis Gay Lussac (1778-1859)

studied with Berthollet

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Justus von Leibig (1803-1873)

Ph.D., Erlangen, 1822; later studied chemistry with Gay-Lussac

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Henri-Regnault (1810-1878)

Studied with Liebig

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Josiah Parsons Cooke (1827-1894)

mostly self-taught in chemistry; studied briefly with Regnault

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Theodore William Richards (1868-1928)

Ph.D., Harvard, 1888

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY, 1914

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Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946)

Ph.D., Harvard, 1899

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Wendell Mitchell Latimer (1893-1955)

Ph.D., Berkeley, 1919

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Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer (1914-1997)

Ph.D., Berkeley, 1937

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Raymond Kay Sheline (1922-    )

Ph.D., Berkeley, 1949

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Mostafa Amr El-Sayed (1933-    )

Ph.D., Florida State, 1959

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Alan Campion (1951-    )

Ph.D., UCLA, 1977

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Michelle Christine Foster (1967-    )

Ph.D., Texas, 1996