Academic Ancestry

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Dennis Sullivan

American mathematicianborn 1941

Supervised 5 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names William Browder as doctoral advisor and lists 37 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 9 other registers.

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Dennis Sullivan, 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

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata37

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 135 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 130 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Sat beside the lineage1

committee member, not advisor