Mervin Joe Kelly: advisors and students

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Mervin Joe Kelly

American physicist1894 to 1971

Wikidata names Robert Andrews Millikan as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Robert Andrews Millikan

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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 WikidataRobert Andrews Millikan
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAlbert Abraham Michelsonstated by WikidataOgden Rood
3 steps up
stated by WikidataHermann von Helmholtz
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohannes Peter Müller

Education and career4

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1918 to 1925
Western Electric
worked
1925 to 1959
Bell Labs
worked
undated
Missouri University of Science and Technology
studied
undated
University of Chicago
studied

At a glance

known as: physicist
awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society, John Fritz Medal, 1959, Hoover Medal, 1961, IRI Medal, 1954, IEEE Fellow, doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon, 1957
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1952
Wikipedia: in 8 languages

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Elsewhere5

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaMervin Kelly
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1592133
stated by WikidataVIAF13817348
stated by WikidataISNI0000000030357896

papers

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Mervin Joe Kelly: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1592133},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Mervin Joe Kelly: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1592133