Fun neurogenealogy facts

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Most represented institutions Nodes 1.  Stanford University 1487 2.  University of California, Los Angeles 1486 3.  Capella University 1423 4.  Columbia University 1376 5.  University of California, San Diego 1312 6.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1221 7.  University of Florida, Gainesville 1206 8.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1151 9.  University of Wisconsin, Madison 1146 10.  Harvard University 1126 11.  Northwestern University 1102 12.  University of California, Berkeley 1099 13.  University of Pennsylvania 1084 14.  University of Texas at Austin 1065 15.  University of Toronto 1058 16.  New York University 1028 17.  University of Washington, Seattle 1008 18.  Walden University 1003 19.  Yale University 1000 20.  Johns Hopkins University 988   . . .   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.