Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Gabriel Lippmann

Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French1845 to 1921

Wikidata names Gustav Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

Gabriel Lippmann, 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.

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

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 41 people: 41 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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