Academic Ancestry

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Demetrios Christodoulou

Greek-American mathematicianborn 1951

Supervised 4 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names John Archibald Wheeler and Remo Ruffini as doctoral advisors, lists 12 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Demetrios Christodoulou, pictured

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

Students4

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

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

    Shuang Miao

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 33 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 29 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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