Academic Ancestry

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Vannevar Bush

American electrical engineer and science administrator1890 to 1974

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Dugald C. Jackson as doctoral advisor, lists 9 doctoral students, and names Arthur E. Kennelly as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 8 other registers.

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Vannevar Bush, pictured

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

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.

The line above and below1 step

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 126 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 125 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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