Academic Ancestry

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H. Robert Horvitz

American biologistborn 1947

Wikidata names James Watson, Sydney Brenner, and Walter Gilbert as doctoral advisors and lists 26 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata26

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 29 people: 29 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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