The authors created the database to track academic mentoring relationships among neuroscientists, in a family tree like format, where an advisor is like a parent and their advisor like a grandparent.

the crowd-sourced website Academic Family Tree, which includes global records of scientists, their advisers and their students in more than 50 academic fields, and the online research catalogue ...

Still, it is great fun to find that Newton, Euler or Gauss is in one’s academic family tree, even if one in three mathematicians can make a similar claim. And if you get to Newton, you get to ...