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Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

American geophysicistborn 1954

Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Oxford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1982 and 2019; Wikidata names Sheila Widnall as doctoral advisor and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata7

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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 11 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 9 stated by Wikidata.

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