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Robert Andrews Millikan

American physicist1868 to 1953

Wikidata names Albert Abraham Michelson and Ogden Rood as doctoral advisors and lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata15

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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.

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 116 people: 116 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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