Academic genealogy

Academic genealogy

An academic, or scientific, genealogy, is an attempt to organise a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships.

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.

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 an equivalent mentor.

See also

*Erdős-Bacon number
*Genealogy of theoretical physicists

External links

* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ Mathematics genealogy search]
* [http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/index.htm Chemical genealogy]
* [http://www.chem.yorku.ca/NAMED/PDF-FILES/MasterList.pdf Scientific genealogy master list (two sections: Scientists Associated with Concepts in Chemistry & Physics; Scientists Associated with Discovering the Elements)]
* [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/xie/sefamily.htm Software engineering academic genealogy]
* [http://www.cse.psu.edu/~yuanxie/community/genealogy/ Computer engineering academic genealogy]
* [http://www.aapps.org/archive/bulletin/vol13/13_6/13_6_p06p41.pdf Science genealogy of American physicists]
* [http://aigp.csres.utexas.edu/ The AI Genealogy Project]
* [http://neurotree.org/neurotree/ Neurotree: The neuroscience family tree]
* [http://sigact.acm.org/genealogy/ Theoretical computer science genealogy]


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