Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Christopher Wren

English architect1632 to 1723

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Christopher Wren, 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.

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Students 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.

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

    Robert Hooke

    born 1635

The line above and below

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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career7

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