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J. Robert Oppenheimer

American theoretical physicist1904 to 1967

Wikidata names Max Born as doctoral advisor and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata20

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors5

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught8

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

    Melba Phillips

    born 1907
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hartland Snyder

    born 1913
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Willis Lamb

    born 1913
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    George Volkoff

    born 1914
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Philip Morrison

    born 1915
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Robert F. Christy

    born 1916
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    David Bohm

    born 1917
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    S. H. Patil

    born 1940

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 128 people: 128 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career12

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