Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

George Lusztig

American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)born 1946

Supervised 13 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Michael Atiyah and William Browder as doctoral advisors, lists 20 doctoral students, and names Michael Atiyah as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students13

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata20

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

    Michael Atiyah

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 77 people: 13 cited by thesis records, 64 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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