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Hugh David Politzer
American physicistborn 1949
Supervised 2 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 1982 and 1985; Wikidata names Sidney Coleman as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Students2
- cited by a thesis record1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Hideaki Aoyama“Pair Creation by Dynamic Field Configurations”
1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
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- stated by Wikidata
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.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataSidney Coleman
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataMurray Gell-Mann
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataVictor Weisskopf
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataEugene Paul Wignerstated by WikidataMax Born
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.
Education and career4
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- until 1966studied
- until 1969studied
- until 1974studied
- undated
Sat beside the lineage66
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Jessica Lauren Fox“The Assembly and Testing of the Spin Dressing Magnet for the Neutron Electric Dipole Experiment”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Yi Hua Chang“Studies of the Evolution and Stability of the Thin Film Equation for Externally Modulated Control of Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Patterning”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kelsie Taylor“A Deep Dive into the Connections Between the Renormalization Group and Deep Learning in the Ising Model”
committee member · 2023 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's
- cited by a thesis record
Shiva Mudide“The Limits of The Quasi-Harmonic Approximation: Anharmonicity in Germanium and the Entropy of Melting”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Albert Isaac Nazeeri“Liquid-Induced Discharge of Polypropylene Microfiber Electret Filters”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Anant M. Kale“Towards High Fidelity Quantum Computation and Simulation with Rydberg Atoms”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Sudhi Mathur“Gravitational Wave Polarizations: A Test of General Relativity Using Binary Black Hole Mergers”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Bethany Anne Suter“Using Graviton EFT and Massive Gravity to Compute Gravitational Potentials for Black Hole Inspirals”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Chengzhe Zhou“Collection of Solved Nonlinear Problems for Remote Shaping and Patterning of Liquid Structures on Flat and Curved Substrates by Electric and Thermal Fields”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gillian Baron Kopp“Search for SUSY with Delayed Photons at the Compact Muon Solenoid”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Alexander Meiburg“A System for Cancellation of Two-Level System Noise in Kinetic Inductance Devices”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Rita Frances Sonka“Characterization and Improvement of the Thermal Stability of TES Bolometers”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Kevin Robert Fiedler“Fundamentals of Thermocapillary Sculpting of Liquid Nanofilms and Applications to Thin Film Micro-Optics”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Shannon Wang“Investigating Quantum Speedups through Numerical Simulations”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Yi-Ju Chen“The Mechanical Genome in Regulation and Infection”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ann Miao Wang“New Physics Models in the Diphoton Final State at CMS”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Benjamin Mathias Clark“Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Tritium for Neutrino Mass Measurement”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Bartosz Fornal“Baryon Number Violation beyond the Standard Model”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Valere Regis Westbrooke Lambert“Multi-Model Inference Ranking and Applications to Physics at the Large Hadron Collider”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Jarvis Li“Nanoelectromechanical Membranes for Multimode Mass Spectrometry”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Rebecca Ann Wernis“Characterizing a Resonator Bolometer Array”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Zachary Louis Marshall“A Measurement of Jet Shapes in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider”
committee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kerstin Marie Perez“Inclusive Jet Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider”
committee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ziyang Ma“Precision Optical Measurements of DNA Structure and Synthesis”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bret Justin Naylor“Broadband Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy with Z-Spec: An Unbiased Molecular-Line Survey of the Starburst Galaxy M82”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Paul Daniel Grayson“The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Matthew Paul Dorsten“Topics in Heavy Particle Effective Theories”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Paul Alexander Wiggins“Biology Beyond Biochemistry:The Mechanics of Life”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Eugene Beckman“Investigations in Quantum Computing: Causality and Graph Isomorphism”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
James William Harrington“Analysis of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Symplectic Lattice Codes and Toric Codes”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Wenjin Shao“Studies and Applications of Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹-Xe”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stephen Michael Ouellette“SU(3) Chiral Symmetry in Non-Relativistic Field Theory”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Costin Radu Popescu“Branes, Brane Actions and Applications to Field Theory”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bruce D. Bray“A Determination of the Neutron Spin Structure Function gⁿ₁ with the 1995 HERMES Data”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Phil A. Willems“Studies of Magneto-Optically and Magnetostatically Trapped Cesium in a Cryogenic Vacuum Apparatus”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Martin Bucher“On the Theory of Non-Abelian Vortices and Cosmic Strings”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mark Adler“The Persistence of Charm in the Relentless Decay of Beauty”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Florian Lindner“Spectral Gaps from Ordered to Disordered Systems”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Wesley J. Boudville“Fluctuations Due to Object Discreteness”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Samuel Leon Braunstein“Novel Quantum States and Measurements”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Malcolm Nicholas Butler“Scaling Violations in Quasielastic Electron Scattering”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Howard D. Stone“Experimental Tests of QCD and Fragmentation Models in Electron-Positron Annihilation”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Brian John Warr“The Regularisation and Renormalisation of Gauge Theories”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ian Gareth Angus“The ΔI = 1/2 Rule and the Strong Coupling Expansion”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Leonid Zinovy Rivkin“Damping Ring for the SLAC Linear Collider”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ariel Caticha“Changes of Variables and the Renormalization Group”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Koon Hang Lau“A Cerenkov-ΔΕ-Cerenkov Detector for High Energy Cosmic Ray Isotopes and an Accelerator Study of ⁴⁰Ar & ⁵⁶Fe Fragmentation”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jeffrey David Richman“A Study of the Iota in Radiative J/PSI Decays”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
David Brian MacFarlane“Nucleon Structure from Neutrino Interactions in an Iron Target with a Study of the Singlet Quark Distribution”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Allan Partridge“Study of the ψ"(3770) Using the Crystal Ball Detector”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael Phillip Shatz“A QCD Based Model of Hadron Hadron Scattering”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Byron Bong Siu“Upper Bounds on the Magnetization of Ferromagnetic Ising Models”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Steve William Otto“Monte Carlo Methods in Lattice Gauge Theories”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hideaki Aoyama“Pair Creation by Dynamic Field Configurations”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jeffrey Mark Greif“Do Helium Monolayer Films Melt by Unbinding of Dislocations?”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Anthony Emerson Terrano“Topics in Perturbative Field Theory”
committee member · 1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral