Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Max Bergmann

German biochemist1886 to 1944

Wikidata names Emil Fischer as doctoral advisor and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

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

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    William Howard Stein

    born 1911
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Stanford Moore

    born 1913

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.

Education and career3

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