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Kip S. Thorne

Also known as K. S. Thorne (OpenAlex)

American physicist (born 1940)born 1940

Supervised 53 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names John Archibald Wheeler as doctoral advisor, lists 53 doctoral students, and names John Archibald Wheeler as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Kip S. Thorne, 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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students53

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata53

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.

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 282 people: 77 cited by thesis records, 205 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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

Sat beside the lineage59

committee member, not advisor