Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Robert P. Dilworth

American mathematician1914 to 1993

Supervised 18 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Morgan Ward as doctoral advisor and lists 17 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students18

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata17

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 314 people: 18 cited by thesis records, 296 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor