Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Alan Davison

British chemist1936 to 2015

Supervised 17 doctoral students and 2 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1974 and 2003; Wikidata names Geoffrey Wilkinson as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Theses

Students19

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

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 18 people: 17 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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