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John G. Trump

American electrical engineer1907 to 1985

Wikidata names Robert J. Van de Graaff as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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 10 people: 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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