Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Leverett Davis

Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 19411914 to 2003

Supervised 14 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology between 1950 and 1971; doctorate in physics at California Institute of Technology in 1941 under William Vermillion Houston; Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Theses1

Advisors1

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    William Vermillion Houston“Conduction Electrons in a Magnetic Field”

    1941 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students14

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below2 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 40 people: 14 cited by thesis records, 26 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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

Works1

1941 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

Sat beside the lineage4

committee member, not advisor