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William Menasco

Also known as William W. Menasco (OpenAlex)

Topologistborn 1954

Wikidata names Robion Kirby as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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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

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

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 6 people: 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex29

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Joan S. Birman

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jane Gilman

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Xiao-Song Lin

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Douglas J. LaFountain

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Morwen B. Thistlethwaite

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Rahul Rai

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Gary F. Dargush

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Xifeng Jin

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Xingru Zhang

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Dustin Bielecki

    2 shared works

OpenAlex lists 19 more people who share a work with them.