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Lonnie Lee Van Zandt

American physicist1937 to 1995

Wikidata names Albert Overhauser as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and Wikipedia.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Albert Overhauser

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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.

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stated by WikidataAlbert Overhauser
2 steps up
stated by WikidataCharles Kittel
3 steps up
stated by WikidataGregory Breit
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJoseph Sweetman Ames

Education and career2

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Harvard University
studied
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Purdue University
worked

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known as: physicist
Wikipedia: in 1 language

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Elsewhere3

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaLonnie Lee Van Zandt
stated by WikidataWikidataQ6674730

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project171233

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q6674730,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Lonnie Lee Van Zandt: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6674730},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Lonnie Lee Van Zandt: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6674730