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Lotfi A. Zadeh

American electrical engineer and computer scientist1921 to 2017

Wikidata names John R. Ragazzini as doctoral advisor, lists 18 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 9 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

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 115 people: 115 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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