Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Johann Rafelski

German-American theoretical physicistborn 1950

Supervised 12 doctoral students at University of Arizona; Wikidata names Walter Greiner as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

Johann Rafelski, pictured

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

Students12

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 12 people: 12 cited by thesis records.

Education and career7

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

Sat beside the lineage9

committee member or committee chair, not advisor