Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David Abramovich Kirzhnits

Russian physicist1926 to 1998

Wikidata names Aleksandr Kompaneyets and Igor Tamm as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and VIAF.

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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.

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

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Vitaly Ginzburg

Taught3

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

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Yury Lozovik

    born 1937
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Andrei Linde

    born 1948
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nurgali Takibayev

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 8 people: 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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