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Alan Guth

American theoretical physicist and cosmologistborn 1947

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2003 and 2006; Wikidata names Francis E. Low as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Alan Guth, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata3

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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 11 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 9 stated by Wikidata.

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