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Robert W. Boyd

American physicistborn 1948

Supervised 3 doctoral students and 3 master's students at Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa between 2016 and 2026; Wikidata names Charles Hard Townes as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Robert W. Boyd, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata2

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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 5 people: 3 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

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