Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Jerry Donohue

American chemist1920 to 1985

Supervised 1 doctoral student at California Institute of Technology in 1952; doctorate at California Institute of Technology in 1947 under Verner F. Schomaker; Wikidata names Linus Pauling as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Theses1

Advisors1

  • cited by a thesis record

    Verner F. Schomaker“Studies of the Representation of Interatomic Distances in Molecules and Crystal as Sum of Atomic Radii”

    1947 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students1

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Linus Pauling

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 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

Education and career4

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

Works1

1947 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?