Academic Ancestry

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Robert Leland Jacobsen

Ph.D. Cornell University 1968

Wikidata names Douglas Sherman Robson, Jack Kiefer, and Lionel Weiss as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Education and career1

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