Academic Ancestry

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Roman Jackiw

Polish-born Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist1939 to 2023

Supervised 12 doctoral students (13 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Hans Bethe and Kenneth G. Wilson as doctoral advisors and lists 33 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Roman Jackiw, pictured

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Students13

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata33

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 116 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 104 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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