Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Alexander William Williamson

English scientist1824 to 1904

Wikidata names Leopold Gmelin as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Alexander William Williamson, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Itō Hirobumi

    born 1841
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Masaki Taizō

    born 1846

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.