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Robley D. Evans

American physicist1907 to 1995

Supervised 5 doctoral students, 1 master's student, and 1 bachelor's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1936 and 1965; Wikidata names Robert Andrews Millikan as doctoral advisor and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students7

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata13

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 89 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 84 stated by Wikidata.

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