Academic Ancestry

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Edward Norton Lorenz

American mathematician and meteorologist1917 to 2008

Wikidata names James Murdoch Austin as doctoral advisor and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Edward Norton Lorenz, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Theses

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata22

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 33 people: 33 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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