Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Jerry Donohue

American chemist1920 to 1985

Supervised 1 doctoral student at California Institute of Technology; doctorate at California Institute of Technology in 1947 under Verner F. Schomaker; Wikidata names Linus Pauling as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors1

  • cited by a thesis record

    Verner F. Schomaker“Studies of the Representation of Interatomic Distances in Molecules and Crystal as Sum of Atomic Radii”

    1947 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students1

Teachers and mentors1

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

The line above and below1 step

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 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

Theses1

Education and career4

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

Works1

1947 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?