John N. Bahcall: advisors and students

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John N. Bahcall

American physicist1934 to 2005

Supervised 2 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students2

cited by a thesis record
Mathilde Jeannette Hebb “Radiative Corrections to Neutrino-Electron Processes”
1967 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Richard Alan Wolf “1. Rates of Nuclear Reactions in White-Dwarf Stars. 2. The Cooling of Neutron Stars”
1966 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students on Wikidata1

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Christopher M.L. Flynn
born 1962

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 6 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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until 1961
Harvard University
studied
undated
University of Chicago
studied
undated
University of California, Berkeley
studied
undated
Louisiana State University
studied
undated
C. E. Byrd High School
studied
undated
California Institute of Technology
worked
undated
Indiana University
worked

At a glance

known as: astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, university teacher
fields: astrophysics
awards: Benjamin Franklin Medal, 2003, Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, 1970, Hans A. Bethe Prize, 1998, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, 1999, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2003, National Medal of Science, 1998, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, 1994, Dan David Prize, 2003, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Comstock Prize in Physics, 2004, Enrico Fermi Award, 2003, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nevada Medal, 1994
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 1976, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 2001, International Astronomical Union
Wikipedia: in 23 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJohn N. Bahcall
stated by WikidataWikidataQ710842
stated by WikidataVIAF56671543
stated by WikidataGND111584078
stated by WikidataIdRef085852759
stated by WikidataISNI0000000116484589

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{John N. Bahcall: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q710842},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). John N. Bahcall: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q710842