Academic Ancestry

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Thomas A. McMahon

American biomedical engineer, scientist specializing in biomechanics and author1943 to 1999

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994; Wikidata names Ascher H. Shapiro as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 3 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

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