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The Impact and Influence of Academic Genealogies

History and Philosophy of Physics 2025-05-20 v1 Digital Libraries

Abstract

We introduce the concept of an academic genealogy, or AG, and illustrate how AG charts may be constructed and then demonstrate how this methodology can be used by applying it to create the partial or full AG charts to two scientists, Paul A. Samuelson and Ronald E. Mickens.

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@article{arxiv.2505.11503,
  title  = {The Impact and Influence of Academic Genealogies},
  author = {Bryan Briones and Ronald E. Mickens and Charmayne Patterson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11503},
  year   = {2025}
}