We’ve traced the academic lineages of our team of top young chemists to uncover their common ancestors
To read the trees, choose one of our Talented 12 and follow the colored arrows to discover how each fits into the central-science family.
Lineage is indicated through colored arrows: Black traces undergraduate lineage, blue traces graduate lineage, and red traces postdoctoral lineage. Common ancestors are highlighted in yellow: Click to see which of the Talented 12 are connected through these well-known chemists.
Note: Affiliations of our Talented 12’s academic relatives are current, most notable, or last known. Lineages are not comprehensive.
Sources: Correspondence with the Talented 12, academictree.org, LinkedIn


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Fikile Brushett
MIT
John M. Vohs
University of Pennsylvania
Paul J. A. Kenis
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John T. Vaughey
Argonne National Laboratory
George M. Whitesides
Harvard
John D. Corbett
Iowa State University
Norman W. Gregory
University of Washington
Edwin N. Lassettre
Carnegie Mellon University
■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Luke Connal
University of Melbourne
Greg Qiao
University of Melbourne
David H. Solomon
University of Melbourne
Craig J.
Hawker
UC Santa Barbara
Frank Caruso
University of Melbourne
Jean M. J. Fréchet
UC Berkeley
Conrad Schuerch
Syracuse University
Ernest H. Huntress
MIT
Forris J. Moore
MIT


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Jillian Dempsey
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Edward I. Solomon
Stanford
Daniel R. Gamelin
University of Washington
Hans U. Güdel
University of Bern
Donald S. McClure
Princeton University
James Ferguson
Australian National University
George E. Gibson
UC Berkeley
William G. Schneider
National Research Council of Canada
Otto Maass
McGill University


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Daniel DiRocco
Merck & Co.
Holly D. Bendorf
Lycoming College
Tomislav Rovis
Columbia
Craig A. Merlic
UCLA
Martin F. Semmelhack
Princeton University


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Michael Feasel
U.S. Army ECBC
Jonathan L. Sessler
University of Texas, Austin
William R. Randall
University of Maryland
Robert L. Kristovich
U.S. Army ECBC
Prabir K. Dutta
Ohio State University
Thomas G. Spiro
University of Washington


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Renee Frontiera
University of Minnesota
Deborah S. Gross
Carleton
College
Richard A. Mathies
UC Berkeley
Richard P. Van Duyne
Northwestern University
Kimberly A. Prather
UC San Diego
Andreas C. Albrecht
Cornell University
Charles N. Reilley
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Robert N. Rosenfeld
UC Davis
William T. Simpson
University of Oregon
Nathaniel H. Furman
Princeton University
Leroy W. McCay
Princeton University


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Marie Heffern
UC Davis
Richard L. Brutchey
University of Southern California
Christopher J. Chang
UC Berkeley
Thomas J. Meade
Northwestern University
Stephen J. Lippard
MIT
Daryle H. Busch
University of Kansas


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Ashish Kulkarni
Harvard Medical School
V. R. Kanetkar
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
Suri S. Iyer
Georgia State University
Shiladitya Sengupta
Harvard Medical School
Elliot L. Chaikof
Harvard Medical School


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Corinna Schindler
University of Michigan
Erick M. Carreira
ETH Zurich
Thomas J. Katz
Columbia
K. C. Nicolaou
Rice University
Eric N. Jacobsen
Harvard
K. Barry Sharpless
Scripps Research Institute California
Konrad E.
Bloch
Harvard
Robert G. Bergman
UC Berkeley
Hans T. Clarke
Columbia
Jerome A. Berson
Yale
Hermann Emil Fischer
Humboldt University of Berlin
Robert B. Woodward
Harvard


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Staff Sheehan
Catalytic Innovations
Dunwei Wang
Boston College
Charles A. Schmuttenmaer
Yale
R. J. Dwayne Miller
University of Toronto
James R. Heath
Caltech
Richard J. Saykally
UC Berkeley
Michael D. Fayer
Stanford
Richard E. Smalley
Rice University
R. Claude Woods
University of Wisconsin
Charles B. Harris
UC Berkeley
Lennard Wharton
University of Chicago
E. Bright Wilson Jr.
Harvard
William Klemperer
Harvard
George C. Pimentel
UC Berkeley


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Bozhi Tian
University of Chicago
Dongyuan Zhao
Fudan University
Daniel S. Kohane
Harvard Medical School
Robert S. Langer
MIT
Warren K. Lewis
MIT
Charles M. Lieber
Harvard
Kenneth A. Smith
MIT
Clark K. Colton
MIT
Harold S. Mickley
MIT
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
MIT
Herman P. Meissner
MIT
Warren K. Lewis
MIT
Mark S. Wrighton
Washington University in St. Louis
George S. Hammond
Santa Clara University


■ Undergrad
■ Grad
■ Postdoc
Florence Wagner
Broad Institute
Mike J. Malaska
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Edward J. Brnardic
GSK
Daniel L. Comins
North Carolina State University
Albert I. Meyers
Colorado State University