Howard P. Robertson: advisors and students

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Howard P. Robertson

American mathematician and physicist1903 to 1961

Supervised 2 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Harry Bateman and Paul Sophus Epstein as doctoral advisors and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students2

cited by a thesis record
Thomas Wyatt Noonan “The Structure of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies”
1961 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Eugene Newman Parker “The Interstellar Dust and Gas Structures”
1951 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Harry Bateman
stated by Wikidata
Paul Sophus Epstein

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Abraham H. Taub
born 1911
stated by Wikidata
Eugene Parker
born 1927

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.

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stated by WikidataHarry Batemanstated by WikidataPaul Sophus Epstein
2 steps up
stated by WikidataArnold Sommerfeldstated by WikidataFrank Morleystated by WikidataPyotr Lebedev
3 steps up
stated by WikidataAlexander Stoletovstated by WikidataAugust Kundtstated by WikidataFerdinand von Lindemann
4 steps up
stated by WikidataFelix Kleinstated by WikidataHeinrich Gustav Magnus

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 59 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 57 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

stated by Wikidata
On the Dynamical Space-Time which Contains a Conformal Euclidean 3-Space
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career8

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

1918 to 1923
University of Washington
studied
1923 to 1925
California Institute of Technology
studied
1925 to 1927
University of Göttingen
studied
1927 to 1931
California Institute of Technology
worked
1931 to 1947
Princeton University
worked
1940 to 1943
National Defense Research Committee
worked
1943 to 1945
Office of Scientific Research and Development
worked
1947 to 1961
California Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, physicist, university teacher
awards: Medal for Merit, 1946
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1940
notable works: Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric, Poynting–Robertson effect, Schrödinger-Robertson relation, Friedmann universe
Wikipedia: in 19 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaHoward P. Robertson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1356879
stated by WikidataVIAF66550161
stated by WikidataGND142304263
stated by WikidataIdRef166455334
stated by WikidataISNI0000000110683421

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project10384

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Howard P. Robertson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
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  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Howard P. Robertson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1356879