Academic Ancestry

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Chen-ning Yang

Chinese physicist1922 to 2025

Wikidata names Edward Teller as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Chen-ning Yang, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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.

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

    Enrico Fermi

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

    Shiing-Shen Chern

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 8 people: 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career11

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