Academic Ancestry

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Roald Hoffmann

Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwrightborn 1937

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Cornell University; Wikidata names Martin Gouterman and William Lipscomb as doctoral advisors, lists 8 doctoral students, and names William Lipscomb as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Roald Hoffmann, 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.

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

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

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

    William Lipscomb

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 9 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage3

committee member, not advisor