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Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

American physicist1919 to 2007

Wikidata names Jesse DuMond as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Jesse DuMond

Students on Wikidata2

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Cyrus Levinthal
born 1922
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Carol Marilyn Newton
born 1925

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataJesse DuMond
2 steps up
stated by WikidataWilliam Vermillion Houston
3 steps up
stated by WikidataAlfred Dodge Cole

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 8 people: 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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until 1942
California Institute of Technology
studied
undated
Princeton University
studied
undated
University of California, Berkeley
worked
undated
Stanford University
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher
fields: physics
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Science, 1969, Matteucci Medal, 1996, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, 1982, Franklin Medal, 1970, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, 1963, Enrico Fermi Award, 1978, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, 1961
member of: French Academy of Sciences, from 1989, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, from 1954, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2002, American Philosophical Society, from 1985, American Physical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1994
Wikipedia: in 19 languages

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Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaPief Panofsky
stated by WikidataWikidataQ707116
stated by WikidataVIAF93830575
stated by WikidataGND128804939
stated by WikidataIdRef07651658X
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109989861

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project268510

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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_Q707116,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q707116},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q707116