Academic Ancestry

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Qian Xuesen

Chinese rocket scientist1911 to 2009

Wikidata names Theodore von Kármán as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Qian Xuesen, pictured

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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.

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

    Zhuang Fenggan

    born 1925

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 115 people: 115 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career11

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