Academic Ancestry

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Nancy Roman

American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project1925 to 2018

Wikidata names William Wilson Morgan as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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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 career7

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