Academic Ancestry

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Roger W. Brockett

American control theorist1938 to 2023

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1969 and 1970; Wikidata names Mihajlo D. Mesarovic as doctoral advisor and lists 62 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata62

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 385 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 383 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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