Academic Ancestry

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Henry McKean

American mathematician at New York University1930 to 2024

Supervised 1 doctoral student; Wikidata names William Feller as doctoral advisor and lists 50 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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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

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata50

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 515 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 514 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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