Academic Ancestry

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Albert Einstein

German-born theoretical physicist1879 to 1955

Wikidata names Alfred Kleiner, Heinrich Burkhardt, and Heinrich Friedrich Weber as doctoral advisors and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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

    Dietrich Prinz

    born 1903
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ernst G. Straus

    born 1922

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 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career20

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