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Maarten Schmidt
Dutch astronomer1929 to 2022
Supervised 9 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 1962 and 1994; Wikidata names Jan Hendrik Oort as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students9
- cited by a thesis record1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Richard Allen Edelson“Broadband Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Donald P. Schneider“CCD Observations of Clusters of Galaxies”
1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Frederick Green“A Complete Sample of White Dwarfs, Hot Subdwarfs, and Quasars”
1977 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gerson Seth Shostak“Aperture Synthesis Observations of Neutral Hydrogen in Three Galaxies”
1972 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Donna Etta Weistrop“Characteristics of Disk and Halo Populations Derived from Photographic Photometry”
1971 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bruce Alrick Peterson“A Study of Absorption and Reddening Using Absolute Magnitudes and Colors of Galaxies”
1969 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Barry Gillespie Clark“The Twenty-One Centimeter Hydrogen Line in Absorption”
1964 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Woodrow Wilson“Observations of the Galactic Plane at 960 Mc/s”
1962 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata2
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1955
- stated by Wikidataborn 2000
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 WikidataJan Hendrik Oort
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataPieter Johannes van Rhijn
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataJacobus Kapteyn
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataCornelius Hubertus Carolus Grinwis
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 15 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 6 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- undatedstudied
- undatedstudied
- undated
Sat beside the lineage13
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
John Evangelos Gizis“M Subdwarfs and the Population II Luminosity Function”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Deepto Chakrabarty“Hard X-Ray Detection and Timing of Accretion-Powered Pulsars with BATSE”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christopher Sharpe Kochanek“Studies in Gravitational Lensing and Numerical Hydrodynamics”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ulvi Hamit Yurtsever“Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Allen Edelson“Broadband Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Hans Hough“Parsec-Scale Structure in the Nuclei of Double-Lobed Radio Quasars”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Michael Rich“Abundances and Kinematics of K Giants in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
James Arthur Fillmore“A Study on the Formation and Dynamics of Galaxies”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Matthew Arnold Malkan“The Physical Nature of the Continuum in Active Galaxies”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard Stanley Simon“Nuclear Structure of Quasars at 329 Megahertz”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Russell Ormond Redman“The Orientation and Sizes of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Donald P. Schneider“CCD Observations of Clusters of Galaxies”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral