Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Gamble Kirkwood

American scientist1907 to 1959

Supervised 8 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 1949 and 1952; Wikidata names Frederick George Keyes as doctoral advisor and lists 3 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

Students8

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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 19 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 11 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

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

Sat beside the lineage1

committee member, not advisor