Academic Ancestry

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Stanley Deser

American physicist1931 to 2023

Wikidata names Julian Seymour Schwinger as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, and names Julian Seymour Schwinger as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Stanley Deser, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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.

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 12 people: 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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