Academic Ancestry

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Abraham Pais

Dutch-American physicist and science historian1918 to 2000

Supervised 2 doctoral students; Wikidata names Léon Rosenfeld as doctoral advisor and names George Uhlenbeck as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Abraham Pais, 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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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

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.

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

    George Uhlenbeck

The line above and below3 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 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career4

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