Joanne Simpson: advisors and students

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Joanne Simpson

American meteorologist1923 to 2010

Wikidata names Herbert Riehl as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Herbert Riehl

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 WikidataHerbert Riehl
2 steps up
stated by WikidataHorace R. Byers
3 steps up
stated by WikidataCarl-Gustaf Rossby
4 steps up
stated by WikidataErik Ivar Fredholm

Education and career8

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

1951 to 1960
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
worked
1960 to 1964
University of California, Los Angeles
worked
1965 to 1974
United States Weather Bureau
worked
1974 to 1979
University of Virginia
worked
from 1979
Goddard Space Flight Center
worked
undated
University of Chicago
studied
undated
University of Chicago
worked
undated
Illinois Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: meteorologist, university teacher
fields: meteorology, hot tower, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1954, Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, 1983, International Meteorological Organization Prize, 2002
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Meteorological Society
Wikipedia: in 11 languages

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Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJoanne Simpson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1690835
stated by WikidataVIAF36472961
stated by WikidataGND1028813074
stated by WikidataISNI0000000038235682

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project222311

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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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@misc{academicancestry_Q1690835,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Joanne Simpson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1690835},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Joanne Simpson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1690835