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Claude Shannon

Also known as Claude E. Shannon (OpenAlex)

American mathematician and information theorist1916 to 2001

Wikidata names Frank Lauren Hitchcock and Vannevar Bush as doctoral advisors and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 9 other registers.

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Claude Shannon, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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