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Herbert S. Gutowsky

American physical chemist1919 to 2000

Wikidata names George Kistiakowsky as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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George Kistiakowsky

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 WikidataGeorge Kistiakowsky
2 steps up
stated by WikidataMax Bodenstein
3 steps up
stated by WikidataViktor Meyer
4 steps up
stated by WikidataRobert Bunsen

Education and career4

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1945 to 1948
Harvard University
studied
undated
University of California, Berkeley
studied
undated
Indiana University
studied
undated
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
worked

At a glance

known as: chemist, university teacher
fields: physical chemistry, chemistry
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1954, National Medal of Science, 1976, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 1983, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, 1966, Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, 1975
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1982
Wikipedia: in 8 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere5

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaHerbert S. Gutowsky
stated by WikidataWikidataQ907778
stated by WikidataVIAF6572923
stated by WikidataGND1102836834
stated by WikidataISNI0000000042594039

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q907778,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Herbert S. Gutowsky: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q907778},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Herbert S. Gutowsky: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q907778