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Robert Lyster Thornton
American physicist1908 to 1985
Wikidata names John Stuart Foster as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 2 other registers.
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Advisors on Wikidata1
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- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1918
The line above and below4 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 WikidataJohn Stuart Foster
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataHenry Andrews Bumsteadstated by WikidataLeigh Page
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataHenry Augustus Rowlandstated by WikidataJosiah Willard Gibbs
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataHermann von Helmholtzstated by WikidataHubert Anson Newton
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career4
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