Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Yrjö Väisälä

Finnish astronomer and physicist1891 to 1971

Wikidata names Anders Donner as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Yrjö Väisälä, 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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Advisors 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

    Liisi Oterma

    born 1915

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.

Education and career3

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