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David Gross

American particle physicist and string theoristborn 1941

Wikidata names Geoffrey Chew as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Edward Witten

    born 1951
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Frank Wilczek

    born 1951
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Rajesh Gopakumar

    born 1967
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nikita Nekrasov

    born 1973

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 119 people: 119 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career10

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