Academic Ancestry

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Arthur Kornberg

American biochemist1918 to 2007

Wikidata names Carl Ferdinand Cori and Severo Ochoa as doctoral advisors, lists 5 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Arthur Kornberg, 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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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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

    Randy Schekman

    born 1948

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 39 people: 39 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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