Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  Capella University 1422 2.  University of California, Los Angeles 1390 3.  Stanford University 1328 4.  Columbia University 1232 5.  University of California, San Diego 1179 6.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1100 7.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1092 8.  Harvard University 1046 9.  Northwestern University 1035 10.  Walden University 1010 11.  University of Pennsylvania 1009 12.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1002 13.  New York University 988 14.  University of California, Berkeley 984 15.  University of Texas at Austin 966 16.  University of Florida, Gainesville 945 17.  City University of New York 935 18.  University of Toronto 923 19.  University of Southern California 902 20.  University of Washington, Seattle 900   . . .   Log in to see where your school ranks.

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Famous cousins: Ivan Pavlov and Sigmund Freud (through Johannes Muller)

Famous cousins: Donald Hebb and Stephen Kuffler (through Charles Sherrington)

Famous cousins: Max Wertheimer and Alois Alzheimer (through Wilhelm Wundt)

Famous cousins: Franz Nissl and Karl Lashley (2nd cousins through Wilhelm Wundt)

Big families stay big. Children of researchers with many offspring tend to have many offspring of their own.

Our great, great, ... great grandparent. 62% of neuroscientists are direct descendents of Martin of Bazan, who was the grandparent of Dominic de Guzman (St. Dominic), 23 generations before the anatomist/phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall, and 28 generations before the physicist/psychophysicist Hermann von Helmholtz.