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Shing-Tung Yau

American mathematician from Hong Kongborn 1949

Wikidata names H. Blaine Lawson and Shiing-Shen Chern as doctoral advisors and lists 73 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata73

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.

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 434 people: 434 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career10

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