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Edward S. Davidson

American academic on computer scienceborn 1939

Supervised 5 doctoral students and 2 students of a level not given at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 1979 and 1991; Wikidata names Gernot Albert Metze as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Students7

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 70 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 65 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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