Academic Ancestry

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Thomas L. Magnanti

American engineerborn 1945

Supervised 16 doctoral students (23 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names George Bernard Dantzig as doctoral advisor and lists 32 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students23

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata32

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 161 people: 17 cited by thesis records, 145 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex80

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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    Anantaram Balakrishnan

    18 shared works
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    Prakash Mirchandani

    17 shared works
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    James B. Orlin

    12 shared works
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    Ravindra K. Ahuja

    10 shared works
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    Georgia Perakis

    10 shared works
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    Richard T. Wong

    9 shared works
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    Luı́s Gouveia

    7 shared works
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    Rita Vachani

    6 shared works
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    Retsef Levi

    6 shared works
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    Yifu Ding

    6 shared works

OpenAlex lists 70 more people who share a work with them.