Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii

Russian theoretical physicist at University of Trento1933 to 2022

Wikidata names Lev Landau as doctoral advisor and names Evgeny Lifshitz and Lev Landau as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 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.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Evgeny Lifshitz

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Lev Landau

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.

Education and career4

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