Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

George W. Housner

American engineer1910 to 2008

Supervised 20 doctoral students and 10 students of a level not given at California Institute of Technology between 1946 and 1984; Wikidata names Romeo Raoul Martel as doctoral advisor and lists 2 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 OpenAlex

Students30

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 43 people: 20 cited by thesis records, 23 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage26

committee member, not advisor