Academic Ancestry

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Alan Turing

English computer scientist1912 to 1954

Wikidata names Alonzo Church as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 10 other registers.

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Alan Turing, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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.

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

    Alonzo Church

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

    G.H. Hardy

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

    Robin Gandy

    born 1919

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 99 people: 99 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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