Noah Smith: Academic Genealogy

The first line

• Erhard Weigel (Leipzig, 1650) begat
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Altdorf, 1666) begat
• Jacob Bernoulli (?) begat
• Johann Bernoulli (1694) begat
• Leonhard Euler (Basel, 1726) begat
• Joseph Lagrange (no PhD) begat
• Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier () and Siméon Denis Poisson¹ (École Polytechnique, ?) jointly begat
• Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet (Bonn, 1827).

The second line

• Otto Mencke (Leipzig, 1665) begat
• Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (Leipzig, 1685) begat
• Christian August Hausen (Halle-Wittenberg, 1713) begat
• Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Leipzig, 1739) begat
• Johan Friedrich Pfaff (Göttingen, 1786) begat
• Carl Friedrich Gauß (Helmstedt, 1799) begat
• Christian Gerling (Göttingen, 1812) begat
• Julius Plücker (Marburg, 1823).

The third line

• Karl Christian von Langsdorf (Erfurt, 1781) begat
• Martin Ohm (Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1811).

• Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (Berlin, 1853). Lipschitz and Plücker (line 2) together begat
• Christian Felix Klein (Bonn, 1868) begat
• Carl Louis Ferdinand Lindemann (Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1873) begat
• Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (Königsberg, 1891) begat
• Ernst Adolph Guillemin² (München, 1926) begat
• Samuel J. Mason (MIT, 1952), who with Morris Halle (Harvard, 1955 - though he studied with Roman Jakobson at Columbia prior to his PhD) begat
• Francis Fan Lee (MIT, 1966; also a Hertz fellow) begat
• Jonathan Allen (MIT, 1968) begat
• Mitchell Marcus³ (MIT, 1977) begat
• Jason Eisner (U. Penn, 2001) begat
• Noah Smith (JHU, 2006).

¹Amazingly, Poisson is my most recent common ancestor with my colleague William Cohen (see his genealogy here).

²Guillemin also begat Robert Mario Fano (MIT, 1947), who begat the famous Frederick Jelinek (MIT, 1962).

³Marcus "begat" some other people I've worked with, including David Yarowsky (on my committee), Dan Melamed, and Eric Brill.