Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John D. Stack

American physicist

Supervised 10 doctoral students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wikidata names Geoffrey Chew as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students10

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

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 11 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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

Sat beside the lineage72

committee member or committee chair, not advisor