Academic Ancestry

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Anatoly Yakobson

Soviet archeologist1906 to 1984

Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students and names Nikolai Marr as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Anatoly Yakobson, pictured

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Students on Wikidata2

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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

    Nikolai Marr

The line above and below

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 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career2

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