Academic Ancestry

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Edgar Mitchell

American astronaut1930 to 2016

Wikidata names James Emerson Potter, Walter Mark Hollister, and Walter Wrigley as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Edgar Mitchell, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 career7

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