Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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Roger Cotes 1 (1682 - 1716)
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Robert Smith 1, 2 (1689 - 1768)
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Anthony Shepherd 1 (1721 - 1796)
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Samuel Vince 1, 2 (1749 - 1821)
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Robert Woodhouse 1 (1773 - 1827)
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George Peacock 1 (1791 - 1858)
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Augustus de Morgan 1 (1806 - 1871)
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E. J. Routh 1, 2 (1831 - 1907)
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Lord Rayleigh 1, 2 (1842 - 1919)
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Sir J. J. Thomson 1, 2 (1856 - 1940)
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Lord Ernest Rutherford 1, 2 (1871 - 1937)
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Sir Edward Crisp Bullard 1, 2, 3 (1907 - 1981)
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Robert L. Parker 1 (1942 -
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Marcia K. McNutt 1, 2 (1952 -
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Paul E. Filmer (1963 -
It's actually not as impressive as it would seem... If you figure that each professor had a minimum of four advisees, then there would be at least 1 billion (4^15) people out there who could trace their 'academic heritage' back to Newton. Even if they advised only 2 students each, you still get 32,000 people. EJ Routh, for example, tutored over six hundred students, including other 'Names of Note in Science' like Bragg and Larmor.
The best part is that when I learned what these people had done, I realized how gnat-like I am. Yikes.
