Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Hans Föllmer

German mathematicianborn 1941

Supervised 3 doctoral students at ETH Zurich and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität; Wikidata names Heinz Bauer and Konrad Jacobs as doctoral advisors, lists 44 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Hans Föllmer, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students3

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata44

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Walter Trockel

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 284 people: 3 cited by thesis records, 281 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage1

referee, not advisor