Academic Ancestry

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Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician1882 to 1970

Wikidata names Carl David Tolmé Runge as doctoral advisor and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata22

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught4

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

    Wolfgang Pauli

    born 1900
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Enrico Fermi

    born 1901
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Maria Göppert Mayer

    born 1906
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Klaus Fuchs

    born 1911

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 339 people: 339 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career11

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