Academic Ancestry

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Heinrich Friedrich Weber

Swiss physicist1843 to 1912

Supervised 5 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names Ernst Abbe as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Heinrich Friedrich Weber, 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

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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

    Albert Einstein

    born 1879

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 11 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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