Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Mark Volpin

USSR chemist1923 to 1996

Wikidata names Nikolay Platė as doctoral advisor and names Q48955656 as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and ISNI.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

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

The line above and below2 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.

Education and career3

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