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Saul Perlmutter

American astrophysicist and Nobel laureateborn 1959

Wikidata names Richard A. Muller as doctoral advisor and names Richard A. Muller as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Richard A. Muller

Teachers and mentors1

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Richard A. Muller

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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.

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stated by WikidataRichard A. Muller
2 steps up
stated by WikidataLuis Walter Alvarez
3 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Holly Compton
4 steps up
stated by WikidataHereward Lester Cookestated by WikidataOwen Willans Richardson

Education and career5

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until 1986
University of California, Berkeley
studied
undated
Harvard University
studied
undated
Germantown Friends School
studied
undated
Greene Street Friends School
studied
undated
University of California, Berkeley
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, astronomer, professor, astrophysicist, researcher
fields: astrophysics
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, 1986
awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, 2002, John Scott Award, 2005, The Shaw Prize in Astronomy, 2006, Feltrinelli Prize, 2006, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, 2007, Dickson Prize in Science, 2010, Clarivate Citation Laureates, 2010, Albert Einstein Medal, 2011, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2015, honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII, 2017, honorary doctorate of Barcelona University, 2019, honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University, 2014
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 2002, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 2007, American Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society
Wikipedia: in 74 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaSaul Perlmutter
stated by WikidataWikidataQ106949
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-4436-4661
stated by WikidataVIAF315707752
stated by WikidataGND1140531913
stated by WikidataISNI0000000033357883

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP166/1359

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@misc{academicancestry_Q106949,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Saul Perlmutter: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q106949},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Saul Perlmutter: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q106949