Plain old family tree: Dr. Surjit Singh (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh 1975)
Up to date Academic Family Tree @ academictree.org
h/t to Howard Wiseman who is another descendant of the same Academic Family Tree
UVa Physics Biographical Details
Gordon’s favorite short story is “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov (see below)
US Patent 5,545,396 Magnetic resonance imaging using hyperpolarized noble gases
Vernon Willard Hughes (1921-2003)
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1950 (Mathematics Genealogy Project)
Michael Marslan, Yale U. Public Affairs Biographical Details
Obituary @ Physics Today by Robert K. Adair and Michael E. Zeller
Memorial Symposium in Honor of Vernon Willard Hughes
Obituary @ New York Times By Stuart Lavietes
Obituary @ Department of Physics, Yale University
Various Researches in Physics Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 2000
My first real research experience was in the group of his son Emlyn Willard Hughes then at Caltech:
On the campus of Caltech, May 1999 from ARNPS 2000 Gordon claimed that Vernon would point at this photo and joking claim that he was the only one in the picture who hadn’t won the Nobel Prize yet. This is not quite true – see caption below…
II Rabi Retirement Symposium, Columbia University, 1967. Speakers (from left): Norman Ramsey (1989), Jerrold Zacharias (NAS 1957, Oersted 1960), Charles Townes (1964), II Rabi (1944), Vernon Hughes (nominated in 1974), Julian Schwinger (1965), Ed Purcell (1952), Bill Nierenberg (NAS 1971), Gregory Breit (NAS 1939, nominated in 1949, 1970-1973) from ARNPS 2000 Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858)
Dr. med., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1822 (Mathematical Genealogy Project)
National Library of Medicine
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