Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Hugh David Politzer

American physicistborn 1949

Supervised 2 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 1982 and 1985; Wikidata names Sidney Coleman as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

Hugh David Politzer, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

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 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage66

committee member, not advisor