Academic Ancestry

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Alan Lightman

American physicist, science writer, essayist, novelistborn 1948

Wikidata names Kip S. Thorne as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Alan Lightman, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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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.

Education and career6

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