Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David Altshuler

Endocrinologistborn 1964

Supervised 1 doctoral student and 1 master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2008 and 2014; Wikidata lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 2 other registers.

David Altshuler, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students2

Taught2

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

    Simon Myers

    born 1977

The line above and below

    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

    Education and career9

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