Academic Ancestry

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Igor Dzyaloshinsky

Soviet physicist, theoretical physicist and university teacher1931 to 2021

Wikidata names Evgeny Lifshitz and Lev Landau as doctoral advisors, lists 1 doctoral student, and names Evgeny Lifshitz and Lev Landau as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

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.

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

    Evgeny Lifshitz

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

    Lev Landau

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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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