Academic Ancestry

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William L. Burke

American physicist1941 to 1996

Wikidata names John Archibald Wheeler, Kip S. Thorne, and Richard Feynman as doctoral advisors and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 16 people: 16 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.