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James Emerson Potter

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962died 2005

Wikidata names Henry McKean as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and DBLP.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 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 12 people: 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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