Academic Ancestry

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George Emil Palade

Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate1912 to 2008

Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students, names Francisc Rainer as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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George Emil Palade, pictured

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Students on Wikidata2

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Teachers and mentors1

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

    Francisc Rainer

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

    Gheorghe Ghițescu

    born 1915

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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career4

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