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Cyril Ponnamperuma
Sri Lankan scientist1923 to 1994
Wikidata names Melvin Calvin as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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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 WikidataMelvin Calvin
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataMichael Polanyi
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataGusztáv Buchböck
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataCarl von Than
Education and career3
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- until 1948studied
- until 1959
- until 1962