Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Georg Simon Ohm

German physicist and mathematician1789 to 1854

Wikidata names Karl Christian von Langsdorf as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Georg Simon Ohm, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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.

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 career6

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