Sydney Coleman (1937-2007) was a descendant of Gauss

[marcus]

Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) was a descendant of Gauss

Arivero informed us of this back in 2005, about the time a celebration for the much beloved and admired Sidney Coleman was held at Harvard---the "Sidneyfest". Attended by a who's who of Nobel laureates and the like.

Anyway Arivero came up with a PhD advisor geneology for Coleman
https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=500382&postcount=23

that goes back to Carl Gauss.

a great from a line of greats

also very funny and nice, I'm led to believe, lot's of Sidney stories collected by Frank Wilczek's wife Betsy Devine
betsydevine.com/blog/2007/11/20/our-friend-sidney-coleman-has-left-the-planet/#comments
more comments at Peter Woit's blog
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=620#comments

maybe someone wants to give a link

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Robphy, thanks for pointing out I corrected the post but the booboo is still on the index page (I can't fix things there)

Iblis, how can one trace PhD advisors back to Galileo?
I'm curious. I didn't know people wrote PhD dissertations back in Galileo's time

 

[robphy]

See also: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=199734
which has a link to the lineage: http://www.physics.harvard.edu/QFT/genealogy.htm

... I think it's Sidney (not Sydney).

 

[Count Iblis]

You can make a link to Galileo this way.

 

[arivero]

for galileo one could tell Viviani.