Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Michael Foster

English physiologist1836 to 1907

Wikidata names Thomas Henry Huxley and William Sharpey as doctoral advisors and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

Michael Foster, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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.

The line above and below2 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 12 people: 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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