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John R. Ross

American linguist1938 to 2025

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970; Wikidata names Noam Chomsky as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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John R. Ross, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata1

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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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