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Daniel J. Kleitman

American applied mathematicianborn 1934

Supervised 5 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Julian Seymour Schwinger and Roy J. Glauber as doctoral advisors and lists 30 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Daniel J. Kleitman, pictured

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Students5

Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata30

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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 316 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 311 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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