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Pavel Etingof

American mathematicianborn 1969

Supervised 22 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2004 and 2026; Wikidata names Igor Frenkel as doctoral advisor and lists 24 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Pavel Etingof, pictured

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Students22

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata24

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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 66 people: 22 cited by thesis records, 44 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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