Academic Ancestry

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Siméon Denis Poisson

French mathematician, mechanician and physicist1781 to 1840

Wikidata names Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Pierre-Simon Laplace as doctoral advisors, lists 4 doctoral students, names Joseph-Louis Lagrange as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Siméon Denis Poisson, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

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.

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

    Nicolas Carnot

    born 1796

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 106 people: 106 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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