Academic Ancestry

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Niklaus Wirth

Swiss computer scientist1934 to 2024

Supervised 13 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names Edward Feigenbaum and Harry Huskey as doctoral advisors, lists 6 doctoral students, names Harry Huskey as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Niklaus Wirth, 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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Students13

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

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

    Harry Huskey

Taught2

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

    Michael Franz

    born 1964
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Beat Signer

    born 1973

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 62 people: 13 cited by thesis records, 49 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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