Mapping student-supervisor relationships throughout history to create a timeline of academic heritage
For a potential postgraduate student, choosing a PhD supervisor can be as weighty a decision as the project itself. However, our supervisors had to make the same decision.
If we map the student-supervisor relationship from a single chemist, it is possible to create an academic lineage which stretches back through history and provides a timeline of a single student's academic heritage. If we map the lineage of all students, we can create a whole academic genealogy of chemists.
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