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Eric Reissner

German American engineer1913 to 1996

Supervised 4 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Dirk Jan Struik as doctoral advisor and lists 21 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Eric Reissner, pictured

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Students4

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata21

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 120 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 116 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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