Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ernst Ising

German physicist1900 to 1998

Wikidata names Wilhelm Lenz as doctoral advisor and names Wilhelm Lenz as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Wilhelm Lenz

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.

Education and career4

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