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Arthur Jaffe

Mathematical physicistborn 1937

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Wikidata names Arthur Wightman as doctoral advisor and lists 26 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Arthur Jaffe, pictured

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata26

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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 207 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 206 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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