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Mikhail Leontovich

Soviet plasma physicist1903 to 1981

Wikidata names Leonid Mandelstam as doctoral advisor, lists 8 doctoral students, and names Leonid Mandelstam as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Mikhail Leontovich, pictured

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 Wikidata8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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 44 people: 44 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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