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Bernard T. Feld

American nuclear physicist1919 to 1993

Supervised 2 doctoral students (4 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Willis Lamb as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students4

cited by a thesis record
Burton Richter “Photoproduction of positive pions from hydrogen by 265 Mev gamma rays”
1956 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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James Lee Burkhardt “The M. I. T. linear accelerator as a pulsed neutron source for a time-of-flight neutron spectrometer”
1951 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
cited by a thesis record
John D. 1929- Fox “The M. I. T. linear accelerator as a pulsed neutron source for a time-of-flight neutron spectrometer”
1951 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
cited by a thesis record
George F Koster “The effects of configuration interaction on the hyperfine structure”
1951 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Willis Lamb

Students on Wikidata4

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George Fred Koster
born 1927
stated by Wikidata
Bogdan Maglich
born 1928
stated by Wikidata
Burton Richter
born 1931
stated by Wikidata
Louis Shreve Osborne

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataWillis Lamb
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJ. Robert Oppenheimer
3 steps up
stated by WikidataMax Born
4 steps up
stated by WikidataCarl David Tolmé Runge

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 9 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 7 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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Columbia University
studied
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City College of New York
studied
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
worked
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University of Chicago
worked

At a glance

known as: nuclear physicist, physicist, university teacher
fields: physics, nuclear physics, nuclear weapon, anti-nuclear movement
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1953, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, 1975, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Guggenheim Fellowship, 1960
member of: American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Manhattan Project
Wikipedia: in 4 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaBernard T. Feld
stated by WikidataWikidataQ4893684
stated by WikidataVIAF41943834
stated by WikidataGND1077223757
stated by WikidataIdRef077794621
stated by WikidataISNI0000000108916345

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project149776

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q4893684,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Bernard T. Feld: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q4893684},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Bernard T. Feld: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q4893684