Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John S. Lewis

American planetary scientistborn 1941

Supervised 8 doctoral students and 5 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Arizona between 1974 and 1996; Wikidata names Harold Urey as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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

Students13

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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 11 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Sat beside the lineage4

committee member, not advisor