Maurice Sanford Fox: advisors and students

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Maurice Sanford Fox

American geneticist1924 to 2020

Wikidata names Willard Libby as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Scopus.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Willard Libby

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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 WikidataWillard Libby
2 steps up
stated by WikidataWendell Mitchell Latimer
3 steps up
stated by WikidataGeorge Ernest Gibson
4 steps up
stated by WikidataOtto Lummer

Education and career2

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undated
University of Chicago
studied
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: geneticist
awards: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Toulouse-III University, 1994
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wikipedia: in 5 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaMaurice Sanford Fox
stated by WikidataWikidataQ6793460

papers

stated by WikidataScopus57201555594

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Maurice Sanford Fox: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6793460},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Maurice Sanford Fox: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6793460