Kao, Chung-Wen: Academic Genealogy

• Kao, Chung-Wen, PhD from University of Maryland, College Park in 2000.
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• Advisor: Thomas David Cohen, PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
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• Advisor: Abraham Klein, PhD from Harvard University in 1950.
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• Advisor: Julian Seymour Schwinger, PhD from Columbia University in 1939, Nobel Prize in Physics of 1965.
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• Advisor: Isidor Isaac Rabi, PhD from Columbia University in 1927, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944.
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• Advisor: Albert Potter Wills, PhD from Clark University in 1897.
• Advisor: Arthur Gordon Webster , PhD from University of Berlin, 1890,  the founder of APS.  
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• Advisor: Hermann von Helmholtz

Graduated from the Medical Institute in Berlin in 1843, having studied mathematics on his own, so Physics genealogy ends there.