Table 4. The founders of neuroscience, as ranked by fecundity measured from the Neurotree database (normalization factor, γ = 1/2, see Methods).
| Rank (γ = 1/2) | Name | Institution | Year | Gen | Rank (Alt γ) | ||
| 1 | 1/4 | 1/10 | |||||
| 1. | John Eccles | Australian National University | 1937 | 20 | 153 | 1 | 11 |
| 2. | Charles Sherrington | University of Oxford | 1901 | 19 | 117 | 8 | 168 |
| 3. | Stephen Kuffler | Harvard University | 1962 | 21 | 167 | 2 | 26 |
| 4. | Karl Lashley | Harvard University | 1924 | 20 | 159 | 5 | 80 |
| 5. | John Langley | University of Cambridge | 1900 | 19 | 113 | 111 | 849 |
| 6. | Michael Foster | University of Cambridge | 1870 | 18 | 109 | 162 | 1342 |
| 7. | Edgar Adrian | University of Cambridge | 1923 | 20 | 155 | 43 | 273 |
| 8. | Donald Hebb | McGill University | 1952 | 21 | 199 | 9 | 58 |
| 9. | Robert Yerkes | Yale University | 1918 | 19 | 154 | 105 | 645 |
| 10. | Johannes Müller | Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | 1842 | 16 | 75 | 81 | 178 |
| 11. | Wilhelm Wundt | University of Leipzig | 1886 | 17 | 111 | 106 | 206 |
| 12. | Bernard Katz | University College London | 1952 | 21 | 204 | 19 | 82 |
| 13. | Torsten Wiesel | Rockefeller University | 1974 | 22 | 267 | 4 | 14 |
| 14. | Keith Lucas | University of Cambridge | 1904 | 19 | 136 | 236 | 1826 |
| 15. | Hans- Lukas Teuber | Mass. Inst. of Technology | 1965 | 21 | 231 | 13 | 85 |
| 16. | John Black Johnston | University of Minnesota | 1907 | 22 | 157 | 231 | 2077 |
| 17. | John Watson | Johns Hopkins University | 1916 | 19 | 158 | 234 | 2095 |
| 18. | Clinton Woolsey | University of Wisconsin | 1964 | 21 | 230 | 25 | 141 |
| 19. | Philip Bard | Johns Hopkins University | 1928 | 20 | 197 | 77 | 701 |
| 20. | Hugo Munsterberg | Harvard University | 1902 | 18 | 137 | 193 | 738 |
| 21. | John Fulton | Yale University | 1932 | 20 | 168 | 62 | 255 |
| 22. | Wilder Penfield | McGill University | 1952 | 20 | 181 | 91 | 535 |
| 23. | Hallowell Davis | Harvard University | 1935 | 21 | 170 | 118 | 598 |
| 24. | Archibald Hill | University College London | 1915 | 20 | 171 | 82 | 264 |
| 25. | Julius Axelrod | National Inst. of Mental Health | 1962 | 22 | 255 | 12 | 44 |
Year refers to first year a degree was awarded to a trainee of this mentor. Generation (Gen) refers to the number mentorship steps back to the oldest common ancestor. Rankings for these individuals based on measures with alternative (Alt) normalization factors appear in the columns at right. At the extremes, γ = 1 weighs all offspring equally, regardless of generation, and γ = 1/10 counts primarily the number of direct trainees and gives very little weight to later generations.