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Charles W. Misner

American physicist1932 to 2023

Wikidata names Arnold Ross and John Archibald Wheeler as doctoral advisors and lists 24 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Charles W. Misner, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata24

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 58 people: 58 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex65

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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    S. Deser

    17 shared works
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    R. Arnowitt

    15 shared works
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    JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER

    7 shared works
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    K. S. Thorne

    4 shared works
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    Reinhard A. Breuer

    3 shared works
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    Dieter R. Brill

    3 shared works
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    H.G. Hughes

    3 shared works
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    Kip S. Thorne

    3 shared works
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    Richard Alfred Matzner

    3 shared works
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    David Finkelstein

    2 shared works

OpenAlex lists 55 more people who share a work with them.