Academic Ancestry

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Richard Kuhn

Austrian-German biochemist1900 to 1967

Supervised 11 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names Richard Willstätter as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, names Richard Willstätter as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Richard Kuhn, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students11

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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.

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

    Friedrich Weygand

    born 1911

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 207 people: 201 cited by thesis records, 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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