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John Tate

American mathematician1925 to 2019

Wikidata names Emil Artin as doctoral advisor and lists 42 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Emil Artin

Students on Wikidata42

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Bernard Dwork
born 1923
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Edward F. Assmus, Jr.
born 1931
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Leonard Evens
born 1933
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Andrew Ogg
born 1934
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Jonathan Lubin
born 1936
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Stephen Sidney Shatz
born 1937
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Saul Lubkin
born 1939
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Stephen Lichtenbaum
born 1939
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William C. Waterhouse
born 1941
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James Milne
born 1942
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George Bergman
born 1943
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Carl Pomerance
born 1944
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Kenneth Ribet
born 1948
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Benedict Gross
born 1950
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Daniel E. Flath
born 1950
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Jerrold Tunnell
born 1950
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Joe Buhler
born 1950
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Robert Kottwitz
born 1950
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Theodore Christopher Kenneth Chinburg
born 1954
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Joseph H. Silverman
born 1955
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V. Kumar Murty
born 1956
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Jeremy Teitelbaum
born 1959
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Dinesh Thakur
born 1961
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Alan Candiotti
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Gregory Scott Call
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Gustave Adam Efroymson
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James Alan Cohn
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James Roger Weisinger
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John Patrick McCabe
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John Paul Labute
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Joongul Lee
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Joseph Edgar Carroll
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Judith Hirschfield Obermayer
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Karrolyne Elaine Fogel
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Kenneth B. Kramer
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Ki-Seng Tan
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Lawrence James Risman
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Michael Joel Razar
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Michael Schlessinger
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Robert Breckinridge Warfield, Jr.
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Shankar Sen
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Stephen Ascanio DiPippo

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataEmil Artin
2 steps up
stated by WikidataGustav Herglotzstated by WikidataOtto Hölder
3 steps up
stated by WikidataHugo von Seeligerstated by WikidataLudwig Boltzmannstated by WikidataPaul du Bois-Reymond
4 steps up
stated by WikidataErnst Kummerstated by WikidataJohannes Peter Müllerstated by WikidataJosef Stefanstated by WikidataKarl Christian Bruhnsstated by WikidataOtto Hesse

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 633 people: 633 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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Fourier Analysis in Number Fields and Hecke's Zeta-Functions
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career7

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

1942 to 1946
Harvard University
studied
until 1942
St. Paul Academy and Summit School
studied
1946 to 1950
Princeton University
studied
1950 to 1953
Princeton University
worked
1953 to 1954
Columbia University
worked
1954 to 1990
Harvard University
worked
1990 to 2009
University of Texas at Austin
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: number theory, mathematics
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967, Abel Prize, 2010, Cole Prize in Number Theory, 1956, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2002, Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 1995, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
member of: French Academy of Sciences, from 1992, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, National Academy of Sciences, from 1969, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Mathematical Society, from 2012
notable works: Tate's isogeny theorem, Serre–Tate theorem, Honda–Tate theorem, Tate module, Hodge–Tate module, Tate conjecture, Sato–Tate conjecture, Birch–Tate conjecture, Tate cohomology group, Tate–Shafarevich group, Barsotti–Tate group, Mumford–Tate group, Lubin–Tate formal group law, Tate curve, Tate's thesis, Tate's algorithm, Tate duality
Wikipedia: in 34 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJohn Tate (mathematician)
stated by WikidataWikidataQ351822
stated by WikidataVIAF2535546
stated by WikidataGND117726079
stated by WikidataIdRef031770916
stated by WikidataISNI0000000108628749

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP196/3893
stated by WikidataScopus56249666000

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project7652

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q351822,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{John Tate: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q351822},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). John Tate: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q351822