Academic Ancestry

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André Lichnerowicz

French mathematical physicist1915 to 1998

Wikidata names Georges Darmois and Élie Cartan as doctoral advisors, lists 27 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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André Lichnerowicz, pictured

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 Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata27

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Paulette Libermann

    born 1919

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 355 people: 355 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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