Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  University of California, Los Angeles 1471 2.  Stanford University 1463 3.  Capella University 1422 4.  Columbia University 1336 5.  University of California, San Diego 1297 6.  University of Florida, Gainesville 1187 7.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1182 8.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1125 9.  Harvard University 1110 10.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1097 11.  Northwestern University 1097 12.  University of California, Berkeley 1089 13.  University of Pennsylvania 1064 14.  University of Texas at Austin 1049 15.  University of Toronto 1044 16.  New York University 1026 17.  Walden University 1003 18.  University of Washington, Seattle 983 19.  Johns Hopkins University 975 20.  Yale University 967   . . .   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.