He was the son of Sarah Hunt Mills and Benjamin Peirce, himself a professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard University and perhaps the first serious research mathematician in America.

Hubble was also a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, surrendered to his father ’ s request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford, though he managed to take a few math and science courses.

David Fabricius ( March 9, 1564 – May 7, 1617 ), was a German theologian who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius ( 1587 – 1615 ).

Kuiper, the son of a tailor in the village of Tuitjenhorn in North Holland, had an early interest in astronomy.

Kumārajīva stayed in Kashgar for a year, ordaining the two princely sons of Tsan-kiun ( himself the son of the king of Yarkand ) and studying the Abhidharma Piṭaka of the Sarvastivada under the Kashmirian Buddhayaśa, as well as the four Vedas, five sciences, Brahmanical sacred texts, astronomy.

Peters was the son of a merchant and, although he did not attend secondary school regularly, he obtained a good knowledge of mathematics and astronomy.

His son, Harry Hemley Plaskett, also pursued a very successful career in astronomy, winning the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1963, thereby making the Plasketts one of the very few families to boast more than one Medal winner.

He knew enough of his period's astrology and astronomy to write a Treatise on the Astrolabe for his son.

He also used He Chengtian's interpolation method for approximating irrational number with fraction in his astronomy and mathematical works, he obtained as a good fraction approximate for pi ; Yoshio Mikami commented that neither the Greeks, nor the Hindus nor Arabs knew about this fraction approximation to pi, not until the Dutch mathematician Adrian Anthoniszoom rediscovered it in 1585, " the Chinese had therefore been possessed of this the most extraordinary of all fractional values over a whole millennium earlier than Europe " Along with his son, Zu Geng, Zu Chongzhi used the Cavalieri Method to find an accurate solution for calculating the volume of the sphere.

* David Norman Orenstein, Oscar's older son, is a high school teacher and math and astronomy expert.

In the 10th century Kamo no Tadayuki and his son Kamo no Yasunori made great advancements in onmyōdō, astronomy and calendar science, and from among their students emerged Abe no Seimei, who displayed superior skills in the divining arts of onmyōdō, by which he gained an uncommon amount of trust from the court society.

Tadayuki and Yasunori passed on their skills in astronomy to Seimei while their advances in calendar-making went to Yasunori's son.

In 1802 Ampère was appointed a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale in Bourg-en-Bresse, leaving his ailing wife and infant son in Lyon.

His grandfather, the son of a Lutheran pastor, had been a professor of theology.

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

His son Peter Marcuse is currently professor emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University.

Flynn's son Victor is a maths professor at New College, Oxford.

Born in Lyon to a Jewish family, the son of the professor of ancient history Gustave Bloch, Marc studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Fondation Thiers in Paris, then at Berlin and Leipzig.

Atta was the only son, but he had two older sisters who are both well-educated and successful in their careers — one as a medical doctor and the other as a professor.

Rolf Nevanlinna's brother Frithiof Nevanlinna ( 1894 – 1977 ) was a mathematics professor, whose son and grandson are mathematics professors.

They were introduced to composer Alexander Glazunov, a professor at the Conservatory, who asked to see Prokofiev and his music ; Glazunov was so impressed that he urged Prokofiev's mother that her son apply to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

** Their younger son Julian was a professor of surgery.

He is the son of Virginia Hope ( née Straus ) and Halsten John Thorkelson, an economics professor at the University of Connecticut.

His son Dylan Thurston is an associate professor of mathematics at University of Indiana.

A college professor at the Spider-Friends ' university, Hiawatha Smith is the son of the heroic chief of the Native American nations that fought against the Axis during World War II.

The son of a highly respected music professor, Florenz " Flo " Ziegfeld, Jr. ( William Powell ) yearns to make his mark in show business.

History professor Antonio Santosuosso puts forth an opinion on Charles, Tours, and the subsequent campaigns against Rahman's son in 736-737, presenting that these later defeats of invading Muslim armies were at least as important as Tours in their defense of Western Christendom and the preservation of Western monasticism, the monasteries of which were the centers of learning which ultimately led Europe out of her Middle Ages.

Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ( née Carter ) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor.

On his deathbed, he committed a manuscript to his chaplain, ordering him to consult with Libert Fromondus, a theology professor at Leuven, and Henri Calenus, a canon at the metropolitan church, and to publish the manuscript if they agreed it should be published, adding " If, however, the Holy See wishes any change, I am an obedient son, and I submit to that Church in which I have lived to my dying hour.

Badham was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, the fourth son of Charles Badham senior, a classical scholar and regius professor of physic at Glasgow ; and Margaret Campbell, a cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet.

Joliot-Curie's daughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, is a nuclear physicist and professor at the University of Paris ; her son, Pierre Joliot, is a biochemist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

The professor has a son who is seen in " Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?

He was the son of Frederik Terkel Julius Gram, a professor of jurisprudence, and Louise Christiane Roulund.

His other son, John W. F. Dulles ( 1913 – 2008 ), was a Brazilianist and professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

The son of a military man, Cernuda received a strict education as a child, and then studied law at the University of Seville, where he met the poet and literature professor Pedro Salinas.

He is the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds, and the grandson of poet Ole Torvalds.

He was replaced by Knut Thorbjørn Eggen, son of former manager Nils Arne Eggen, from August 1.

He was born around 1460 as the son of Nils Bosson of the family of Natt och Dag ( whose mother was of Sture family ).

Nils Jönsson was son of important nobles and landowners: his mother lady Märta Finvidsdotter was the heiress of the Frössvik high-noble family, and his father Jöns Bengtsson was son and one of the heirs of lady Ingeborg Nilsdotter ( from family that is called the earliest Sparre in later historiography and genealogy ), heiress of Ängsö and Salsta.

The leader of the rebellion was the so-called Daljunkern (" the youngster from Dalarna "), who claimed to be Nils Sture, the 15-year-old elder son of Lord Sture and Gyllenstierna.

As Nils Allesson was the son of a priest, the cathedral chapter in Lund, Denmark-the primate over Uppsala-appealed the election to the pope.

Gyldén was the son of Nils Abraham Gyldén, Professor of Classical philology at the University of Helsinki and baroness Beata Sofia Wrede.

Their son, Nils Tavernier ( born 1 September 1965 ), works as both a director and actor.

Robert Themptander was born in Stockholm, the son of lieutenant Nils Themptander and Adolphina Laurent.

Nilsen is a surname of Norwegian origin, meaning " son of Nils ".

The son of a clergyman, Odhner's mother was a sister of Nils Ericson and John Ericsson.

Branobel was formally dissolved in 1959 and its last President was Nils Nobel-Oleinikoff, son of Marta Nobel-Oleinikoff and grandson of Ludvig Nobel.

After the War, during which Jørgen was exiled in Scotland, their second son, Nils Holger Petersen, was born in 1946.

Retained from his 1989 / 1990 inaugural jaunt were Joe Walsh and Nils Lofgren, while newcomers were Burton Cummings, Timothy B. Schmit, Dave Edmunds, Todd Rundgren, Tim Cappello on sax and Starr's own son, Zak Starkey on drums.