Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Francis E. Low

American physicist1921 to 2007

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972; Wikidata names Hans Bethe as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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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 OpenAlex

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 34 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 32 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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