Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Brian Cherney

Canadian composerborn 1942

Supervised 5 doctoral students (24 students at any level) at McGill University; Wikidata names John Weinzweig and Samuel Dolin as teachers and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Brian Cherney, pictured

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.

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Students24

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    John Weinzweig

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Samuel Dolin

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Elinor Frey

The line above and below

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 5 people: 5 cited by thesis records.

    Education and career3

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