Academic Ancestry

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Zellig S. Harris

Populariser of theoretical linguistics1909 to 1992

Wikidata names James Alan Montgomery as doctoral advisor, lists 5 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Fred Lukoff

    born 1920
  • 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

    Maurice Gross

    born 1934

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 17 people: 17 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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