Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Verrall

American composer1908 to 2001

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student and names Aaron Copland, Frederick Jacobi, and Roy Harris as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors3

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

    Aaron Copland

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

    Frederick Jacobi

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

    Roy Harris

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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career3

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