Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Chipman

American chemist and metallurgist1897 to 1983

Supervised 1 doctoral student and 1 master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1954; Wikidata names Gilbert N. Lewis as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 2 other registers.

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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 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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 3 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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