Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Philip M. Morse

American physicist1903 to 1985

Supervised 8 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Karl Taylor Compton as doctoral advisor and lists 14 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students8

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata14

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 120 people: 16 cited by thesis records, 105 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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