Academic Ancestry

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Isaiah Berlin

Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas1909 to 1997

Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Isaiah Berlin, pictured

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Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Geoffrey Midgley

    born 1921

The line above and below

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 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career3

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