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William H. Press

Astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, and computational biologistborn 1948

Wikidata names Kip S. Thorne as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 141 people: 141 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex212

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

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    Saul A. Teukolsky

    66 shared works
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    Richard H. Price

    40 shared works
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    SaulVE Teukolsky

    37 shared works
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    William T. Vetterling

    33 shared works
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    Brian P. Flannery

    33 shared works
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    David N. Spergel

    21 shared works
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    Eric Horvitz

    11 shared works
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    S. Perlmutter

    11 shared works
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    R. Kirshner

    8 shared works
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    G. B. Rybicki

    8 shared works

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