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Ascher H. Shapiro

American professor of mechanical engineering and fluid mechanics1916 to 2004

Supervised 15 doctoral students, 6 master's students, and 1 student of a level not given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1952 and 1987; Wikidata names Joseph Henry Keenan as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 26 people: 15 cited by thesis records, 11 stated by Wikidata.

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