Academic Ancestry

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Alexander Nesmeyanov

Soviet chemist specializing in organometallic chemistry1899 to 1980

Wikidata names Mykola Zelinsky as doctoral advisor, lists 7 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Alexander Nesmeyanov, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Nikolai Kochetkov

    born 1915
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Oleg Reutov

    born 1920
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Q124770590

    born 1922

The line above and below2 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 career6

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