Academic Ancestry

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner1853 to 1926

Wikidata names Rudolf Adriaan Mees as doctoral advisor and lists 24 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata24

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

    Pieter Zeeman

    born 1865
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    John Cuthbert Swallow

    born 1903

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 85 people: 85 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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