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Murray Gell-Mann

American physicist1929 to 2019

Wikidata names Victor Weisskopf as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Murray Gell-Mann, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Enrico Fermi

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Victor Weisskopf

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Kenneth G. Wilson

    born 1936
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sidney Coleman

    born 1937

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 199 people: 199 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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