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Cumrun Vafa

Iranian-American physicistborn 1960

Wikidata names Edward Witten as doctoral advisor and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

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 45 people: 45 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex257

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Hirosi Ooguri

    30 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jonathan J. Heckman

    30 shared works
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    Michel Le Bellac

    30 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Edward Witten

    25 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Sergio Cecotti

    25 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mina Aganagic

    23 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Shing–Tung Yau

    21 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robbert Dijkgraaf

    20 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Hee‐Cheol Kim

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Sergei Gukov

    12 shared works

OpenAlex lists 247 more people who share a work with them.