Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Chao Yuen Ren

Chinese-American linguist and educator1892 to 1982

Wikidata names Henry M. Sheffer as doctoral advisor and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Chao Yuen Ren, pictured

Two steps up and one down. 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.

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

    Jerry Norman

    born 1936

The line above and below3 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 career7

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