Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

F. Albert Cotton

American chemist1930 to 2007

Supervised 4 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1966 and 1974; Wikidata names Geoffrey Wilkinson as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

F. Albert Cotton, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students4

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 22 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 18 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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