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Theodosius Dobzhansky

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist1900 to 1975

Supervised 1 doctoral student in 1966; Wikidata names Grigoriy Levitskiy, Sergei Chetverikov, and Yuri Filipchenko as doctoral advisors, lists 2 doctoral students, names Yuri Filipchenko as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Theodosius Dobzhansky, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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.

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

    Yuri Filipchenko

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

    Francisco J. Ayala

    born 1934

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 33 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 32 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

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