Academic Ancestry

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Roman Jakobson

Russian linguist1896 to 1982

Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students, names Dmitry Ushakov and Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages as teachers, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Roman Jakobson, pictured

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Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

Taught2

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

    Noam Chomsky

    born 1928
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Clarence Brown

    born 1929

The line above and below

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 27 people: 27 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career5

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