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Lafayette Mendel

American biochemist1872 to 1935

Wikidata names Russell Henry Chittenden as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Lafayette Mendel, 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.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Mary Swartz Rose

    born 1874
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Helen T. Parsons

    born 1886
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Icie Hoobler

    born 1892

The line above and below4 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 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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