Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Sydney Chapman

British mathematician and geophysicist1888 to 1970

Wikidata names G.H. Hardy and Joseph Larmor as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

Sydney Chapman, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Attia Ashour

    born 1924

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 15 people: 15 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career10

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