Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Eli Sternberg

American scientist in engineering of mechanics1917 to 1988

Supervised 6 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Michael Sadowsky as doctoral advisor and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students6

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 141 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 135 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage15

committee member, not advisor