Academic Ancestry

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John Bardeen

American physicist and engineer1908 to 1991

Supervised 10 doctoral students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 1957 and 1975; Wikidata names Eugene Paul Wigner as doctoral advisor, lists 25 doctoral students, names Eugene Paul Wigner as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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John Bardeen, 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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students10

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata25

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.

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

    Nick Holonyak

    born 1928
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    John Robert Schrieffer

    born 1931

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: 10 cited by thesis records, 52 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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

Sat beside the lineage4

committee member or committee chair, not advisor