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Milton S. Plesset
American physicist1908 to 1991
Supervised 24 doctoral students (28 students at any level) at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names John Archibald Wheeler as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students28
- cited by a thesis record
Larry Douglas Koffman“I. Experimental Observations of the Microlayer in Vapor Bubble Growth on a Heated Solid. II. An Investigation of the Theory of Evaporation and Condensation”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Satwindar Singh Sadhal“Analysis of Heat Transfer in Several Media”
1979 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrea Prosperetti“Viscous and Nonlinear Effects in the Oscillations of Drops and Bubbles”
1974 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christopher George Whipple“Extension of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Theory with Applications”
1974 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Edward Jay Chapyak“Surface Effects in Simple Molecular Systems”
1972 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1970 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Ronald Lee Kerber“Phase Transitions from the Solid State of Monatomic Elements”
1970 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David James McCloskey“Multiple Scattering of Acoustical Waves”
1967 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Giulio Venezian“I. Fluid Flow in a Precessing Spherical Cavity. II. Electromagnetic Radiation from an Expanding Sphere in a Magnetic Field”
1965 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Hickling“I. Acoustic Radiation and Reflection from Spheres. II. Some Effects of Thermal Conduction and Compressibility in the Collapse of a Cavity in a Liquid”
1963 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Din-Yu Hsieh“Theory of Gas Bubble Dynamics in Oscillating Pressure Fields”
1960 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1960 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record1959 · California Institute of Technology · level not given
- cited by a thesis record
Norman Julius Zabusky“Hydromagnetic Stability of a Streaming Cylindrical Plasma”
1959 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrew George Fabula“Some Experiments in Cavitation Bubble Dynamics”
1958 · California Institute of Technology · level not given - cited by a thesis record
Joseph Matthew Green“The Hydrodynamics of Spherical Cavities in the Neighborhood of a Rigid Plane”
1957 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thomas Patrick Mitchell“I. The Propagation of Shock Waves in Non-Uniform Gases. II. The Stability of the Spherical Shape of a Vapor Cavity in a Liquid”
1956 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
George Walter Sutton“A Study of the Application of Photoelasticity to the Investigation of Stress Waves”
1955 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stanley Alan Zwick“The Growth and Collapse of Cavitation Bubbles”
1955 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Albert Stallkamp“Hydrodynamic Forces on Prolate Ellipsoidal Bodies”
1954 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Albert Tromly Ellis“Observations on Cavitation Bubble Collapse”
1953 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marc Kampé de Fériet“Investigation of Boundaries for Transitions from Axial to Two-Dimensional Flow by Electrical Analogy”
1953 · California Institute of Technology · level not given - cited by a thesis record
Warren Edward Mathews“On the Flow of Vapor Between Liquid Surfaces”
1953 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Paul Dergarabedian“The Rate of Growth of Vapor Bubbles in Superheated Water”
1952 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1952 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Forrest Richard Gilmore“The Dynamics of Condensation and Vaporization”
1951 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Maurice Rattray“Perturbation Effects in Cavitation Bubble Dynamics”
1951 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Harry Eastwood Crossley“The Analogy Between Surface Shock Waves in a Liquid and Shocks in Compressible Gases”
1950 · California Institute of Technology · level not given
Advisors on Wikidata1
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Students on Wikidata5
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1922
- stated by Wikidataborn 1929
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
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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 WikidataJohn Archibald Wheeler
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataKarl Herzfeld
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataArnold Sommerfeldstated by WikidataFriedrich Hasenöhrl
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataFerdinand von Lindemannstated by WikidataFranz S. Exner
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 52 people: 25 cited by thesis records, 27 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career5
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
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Sat beside the lineage4
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Larry Douglas Koffman“I. Experimental Observations of the Microlayer in Vapor Bubble Growth on a Heated Solid. II. An Investigation of the Theory of Evaporation and Condensation”
committee member · 1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrea Prosperetti“Viscous and Nonlinear Effects in the Oscillations of Drops and Bubbles”
committee member · 1974 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ying-Chu Lin Susan Wu“Flow Generated by Suddenly Heated Flat Plate”
committee member · 1963 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Allan James Acosta“An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Two-Dimensional Centrifugal Pump Impellers”
committee member · 1952 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral