Academic Ancestry

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Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer1906 to 1992

Wikidata names Øystein Ore as doctoral advisor, names Howard Engstrom and Øystein Ore as teachers, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 8 other registers.

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Grace Hopper, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Howard Engstrom

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

    Øystein Ore

Taught1

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

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.

Theses

Education and career11

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