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Gerald J. Wasserburg
American geologist1927 to 2016
Supervised 20 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 1962 and 1996; Wikidata names Harold Urey and Mark Inghram as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Students20
- cited by a thesis record
Ariel David Anbar“I. Rhenium and Iridium in Natural Waters. II. Methyl Bromide: Ocean Sources, Ocean Sinks, and Climate Sensitivity. III. CO₂ Stability and Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Mars”
1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Joel David Blum“Geochemistry and Resonance Ionization of Platinum-Group Elements”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Cheryl A. Brigham“Isotopic Heterogeneity in Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Meteoritic Inclusions”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Oded Navon“Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Micro-Inclusions in Diamonds”
1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Lawrence Edwards“High Precision Thorium-230 Ages of Corals and the Timing of Sea Level Fluctuations in the Late Quaternary”
1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stein Bjørnar Jacobsen“Study of Crust and Mantle Differentiation Processes from Variations in Nd, Sr, and Pb Isotopes”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Malcolm Thomas McCulloch“Part I. Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Chronology of Crustal Formation. Part II. Ba, Nd and Sm Isotopic Anomalies in the Allende Meteorite”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stephen Pritchard Smith“Studies of Noble Gases in Meteorites and in the Earth”
1979 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Donald James DePaolo“Study of Magma Sources, Mantle Structure and the Differentiation of the Earth from Variations of ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd in Igneous Rocks”
1978 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alexander John Jr Gancarz“I: Isotopic Systematics in Archean Rocks, West Greenland. II: Mineralogic and Petrologic Investigations of Lunar Rock Samples”
1976 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stephen Howard Wolfe“Part I. Geology of the Manicouagan-Mushalagan Lakes Structure. Part II. Geochronology of the Manicouagan-Mushalagan Lakes Structure”
1972 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Norman Schramm“The Isotopic Composition of Mg and the Implied Limits on ²⁶Al in the Early Solar System. Nucleosynthesis of ²⁶Al. And Nucleosynthetic Chronologies for the Galaxy”
1971 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dimitri Anastassios Papanastassiou“The Determination of Small Time Differences in the Formation of Planetary Objects”
1970 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard John O'Connell“Part 1. Dynamic Response of Phase Boundaries in the Earth to Surface Loading. Part 2. Pleistocene Glaciation and the Viscosity of the Lower Mantle”
1969 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thomas Louis Henyey“Heat Flow near Major Strike-Slip Faults in Central and Southern California”
1968 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Stevens Naylor“A Field and Geochronologic Study of Mantled Gneiss Domes in Central New England”
1967 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
James Louis Aronson“The Geochronology of the Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks of New Zealand”
1966 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Eugene Zartman“A Geochronological Study of the Lone Grove Pluton from the Llano Uplift, Texas”
1963 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marvin Alder Lanphere“I. Geology of the Wildrose Area, Panamint Range, California. II. Geochronologic Studies in the Death Valley-Mojave Region, California”
1962 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata2
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- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata3
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1941
- stated by Wikidataborn 1951
- 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.
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stated by WikidataHarold Ureystated by WikidataMark Inghram
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataAlfred Otto Carl Nierstated by WikidataArthur Jeffrey Dempsterstated by WikidataGilbert N. Lewis
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Torrence Tate, Sr.stated by WikidataTheodore William Richards
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataJames Franckstated by WikidataJosiah P. Cooke
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 27 people: 20 cited by thesis records, 7 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career2
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Sat beside the lineage13
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Julia S. Goreva“Origin of Th/U Variations in Chondritic Meteorites”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ariel David Anbar“I. Rhenium and Iridium in Natural Waters. II. Methyl Bromide: Ocean Sources, Ocean Sinks, and Climate Sensitivity. III. CO₂ Stability and Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Mars”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Joel David Blum“Geochemistry and Resonance Ionization of Platinum-Group Elements”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Cheryl A. Brigham“Isotopic Heterogeneity in Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Meteoritic Inclusions”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Oded Navon“Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Micro-Inclusions in Diamonds”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Bruce Vogelaar“The ²⁶Al(p,γ)²⁷Si Reaction: Stellar Origins of Galactic ²⁶Al”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Lawrence Edwards“High Precision Thorium-230 Ages of Corals and the Timing of Sea Level Fluctuations in the Late Quaternary”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Russell Scott“Magmons: Solitary Waves Arising in the Buoyant Ascent of Magma by Porous Flow through a Viscously Deformable Matrix”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Donald John Piepgras“The Isotopic Composition of Neodymium in the Marine Environment: Investigations of the Sources and Transport of Rare Earth Elements in the Oceans”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Henry Francis III Shaw“Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Isotopic Systematics of Tektites and Other Impactites, Appalachian Mafic Rocks, and Marine Carbonates and Phosphates”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael David Prendergast“Linear Programming Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Equations Backwards in Time”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alan Reed Gillespie“Quaternary Glaciation and Tectonism in the Southeastern Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kenneth Watson“I. The Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Selected Silicate Powders in Vacuum from 150° to 350° K. II. An Interpretation of the Moon's Eclipse and Lunation Cooling as Observed through the Earth's Atmosphere from 8-14 Microns”
committee member · 1964 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral