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John Archibald Wheeler

American physicist1911 to 2008

Wikidata names Karl Herzfeld as doctoral advisor, lists 29 doctoral students, names Niels Bohr as teacher, and lists 8 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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John Archibald Wheeler, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata29

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Niels Bohr

Taught8

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

    Richard Feynman

    born 1918
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hugh Everett III

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    David Hestenes

    born 1933
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Kip S. Thorne

    born 1940
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    W. G. Unruh

    born 1945
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jacob Bekenstein

    born 1947
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Christopher Alan Fuchs

    born 1964
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Masami Wakano

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 629 people: 629 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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