An academic, or scientific, genealogy, is an attempt to organise a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships. Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. ... A family tree is generally the totality of ones ancestors represented as a tree structure, or more specifically, a chart used in genealogy. ...
Such projects have been well developed for Mathematicians and some branches of Chemistry and Physics, and specific databases do exist in the web. The Mathematics Genealogy Project attempts to go back to the time of Leibniz. The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database that gives an academic genealogy based on dissertation supervision relations. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ...
In some cases the links in such databases are not supported by documentary evidence and they are closer to academic or collaborative relationships. Also, the dissertation advising methodology was not equally implemented in all universities. Notably, the University of Cambridge did not require a formal doctoral thesis until 1919, and thus academic genealogy authorities tend to substitute in an equivalent mentor. This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
A persons Erdős-Bacon number is the sum of their Erdős number and their Bacon number. ... It is possible to build an academic genealogy of researchers and scholars in theoretical physics by following the pedigree of their thesis advisors. ... The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database that gives an academic genealogy based on dissertation supervision relations. ...
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