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David M. Dennison

American physicist1900 to 1976

Wikidata names Oskar Klein and Walter F. Colby as doctoral advisors, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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David M. Dennison, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Ku Zing-whai

    born 1900

The line above and below3 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 96 people: 96 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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