Academic Ancestry

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Simon Ostrach

American aerodynamics engineer1923 to 2017

Supervised 5 doctoral students at Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies between 1990 and 1994; Wikidata names George F. Carrier and William Prager as doctoral advisors and lists 52 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 4 other registers.

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Students5

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata52

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 146 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 141 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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