Academic Ancestry

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Thomas Gold

Austrian astrophysicist1920 to 2004

Wikidata names Richard Pumphrey as doctoral advisor, lists 4 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Stanton J. Peale

    born 1937
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Peter Goldreich

    born 1939

The line above and below1 step

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 37 people: 37 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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