Academic Ancestry

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Jakob Ackeret

Swiss aerodynamics engineer1898 to 1981

Wikidata names Aurel Stodola and Ludwig Prandtl as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Jakob Ackeret, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Aurel Stodola

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

    Wernher von Braun

    born 1912
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nikolaus Rott

    born 1917

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 43 people: 43 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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