Academic Ancestry

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Franz Tank

Swiss physicist1890 to 1981

Supervised 129 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names Alfred Kleiner as doctoral advisor, lists 6 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 5 other registers.

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Franz Tank, 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

Students129

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

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

    Max Waldmeier

    born 1912

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 396 people: 344 cited by thesis records, 58 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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