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Walter Wrigley

Professor of Instrumentation and Astronautics at M.I.T.1913 to 1989

Supervised 4 doctoral students and 15 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1954 and 1972; doctorate in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941 under C. S. Draper and P. M. Morse; Wikidata names Charles Stark Draper and Philip M. Morse as doctoral advisors and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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Theses1

Advisors2

The thesis record names C. S. Draper and P. M. Morse; Wikidata names Charles Stark Draper and Philip M. Morse.

  • cited by a thesis record

    C. S. Draper“An investigation of methods available for indicating the direction of the vertical from moving bases”

    1941 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    P. M. Morse“An investigation of methods available for indicating the direction of the vertical from moving bases”

    1941 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students19

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

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 24 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 14 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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

Works1

1941 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?