Academic Ancestry

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William Vickrey

Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate1914 to 1996

Wikidata names Carl Shoup and Robert M. Haig as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 26 people: 26 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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