Academic Ancestry

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Theodore von Kármán

Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist1881 to 1963

Wikidata names Ludwig Prandtl as doctoral advisor and lists 38 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Theodore von Kármán, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata38

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

    Ludwig Prandtl

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

    Qian Xuesen

    born 1911
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hu Ning

    born 1916

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 566 people: 566 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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