Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

James Hutton

Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist;1726 to 1797

Wikidata names Colin MacLaurin as doctoral advisor and names Colin MacLaurin and Guillaume-François Rouelle as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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James Hutton, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Theses

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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 below2 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 career5

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