Steven E. Koonin: advisors and students

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Steven E. Koonin

American physicist (born 1951)born 1951

Supervised 20 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Arthur Kerman as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Students20

cited by a thesis record
Hans-Michael Müller “Fermionic quantum systems. Part I: Phase transitions in quantum dots. Part II: Nuclear matter on a lattice”
1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Radha Pillapakkam Bahukutumbi “Shell Model Monte Carlo for Gamow-Teller Strengths and Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay”
1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bing-Qing Chen “Nuclear Hartree-Fock calculations on parallel computers”
1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gladys Hau-Wan Lang “Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo methods for interacting fermions : application to the nuclear shell model”
1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anne Allder “Calculations of quasielastic electron scattering from nuclei at high momentum transfers”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Carlo Carraro “A Path Integral Monte Carlo Method for the Quasielastic Response”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David Allan Wasson “Relativistic mean field theory: methods and applications”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Malcolm Nicholas Butler “Scaling Violations in Quasielastic Electron Scattering”
1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ming-chung Chu “Hydrodynamics of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dawn Christine Meredith “Quantum Chaos: Spectral Fluctuations and Overlap Distributions of the Three Level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Neuhauser “Two Problems in Many Body Physics: I. Photon Production: A Probe of Heavy Ion Collisions. II. Structure of Matter in Strong Magnetic Fields”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Volker Pönisch “Subbarrier Fusion of the Oxygen Isotopes”
1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Narayan Krishna Mahale “Monte Carlo Calculation of Three-Body Scattering”
1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gayle A. Sugiyama “Auxiliary Field Monte-Carlo for Quantum Many-Body Systems”
1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nai-Hang Kwong “Realistic Calculations of Excitations in Nuclear Matter”
1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Roy David Williams “Semiclassical Quantization in Many Dimensions”
1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gregory John Ball “A Proximity Formulation of Nuclear Dynamics”
1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bradley A. Flanders “Application of TDHF Methods to Nuclear Physics”
1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Brian R. Davis “Studies of Antineutrinos at Nuclear Reactors and Atomic Final State Effects in Tests of T-Violation”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Robert Lee Hatch “Single- and Multiple-Scattering Mechanisms in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Arthur Kerman

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataArthur Kerman
2 steps up
stated by WikidataVictor Weisskopf
3 steps up
stated by WikidataEugene Paul Wignerstated by WikidataMax Born
4 steps up
stated by WikidataCarl David Tolmé Rungestated by WikidataMichael Polanyi

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 20 people: 20 cited by thesis records.

Theses

stated by Wikidata
Hydrodynamic approximations to time-dependent Hartree-Fock
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career6

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

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California Institute of Technology
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Stuyvesant High School
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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California Institute of Technology
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New York University
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New York University Tandon School of Engineering
worked

Sat beside the lineage34

committee member, not advisor

cited by a thesis record
Daniel Eric Gottesman “Stabilizer Codes and Quantum Error Correction”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Radha Pillapakkam Bahukutumbi “Shell Model Monte Carlo for Gamow-Teller Strengths and Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dawei Dong “Dynamic Properties of Neural Networks”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Carlo Carraro “A Path Integral Monte Carlo Method for the Quasielastic Response”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sean Macauley Callahan “Exchange Interactions in Solid ³He on a Parallel Computer”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Malcolm Nicholas Butler “Scaling Violations in Quasielastic Electron Scattering”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Askell Hardarson “Doublewell Tunneling via the Feynman-Kac Formula”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Barton Duane Huxtable “Absence of a Scott Correction for the Total Binding Energy of Noninteracting Fermions in a Smooth Potential Well”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ren-Feng Yuan “¹⁸O + ¹⁸O Reactions”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ming-chung Chu “Hydrodynamics of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jonathan William Flower “Lattice Gauge Theory on a Parallel Computer”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dawn Christine Meredith “Quantum Chaos: Spectral Fluctuations and Overlap Distributions of the Three Level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Neuhauser “Two Problems in Many Body Physics: I. Photon Production: A Probe of Heavy Ion Collisions. II. Structure of Matter in Strong Magnetic Fields”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David Lee Wark “The β Spectrum Following Fission from ²⁵²Cf”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Volker Pönisch “Subbarrier Fusion of the Oxygen Isotopes”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Ben Weimer “Thermal Desorption of Helium Films: Theory and Experiment”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Narayan Krishna Mahale “Monte Carlo Calculation of Three-Body Scattering”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Robert Thomas Skelton “The ²⁶Mg(p,n)²⁶Al and ²³Na(α,n)²⁶Al Reactions”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Hidenori Sonoda “Chiral Anomalies and the Chiral Lagrangian”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gayle A. Sugiyama “Auxiliary Field Monte-Carlo for Quantum Many-Body Systems”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nai-Hang Kwong “Realistic Calculations of Excitations in Nuclear Matter”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Lawrence Osborne “The ³He(α,γ)⁷Be Reaction at Low Energies”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Steve William Otto “Monte Carlo Methods in Lattice Gauge Theories”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Augusto Sagnotti “Topics in Supersymmetry Theory: 1. A Superspace Action for Ten-Dimensional Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory in Terms of Four-Dimensional Superfields; 2. Gauge Groups for Type-I Superstrings”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen Trentalange “Carbon Isotope Fusion”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Roy David Williams “Semiclassical Quantization in Many Dimensions”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jeffrey Mark Greif “Do Helium Monolayer Films Melt by Unbinding of Dislocations?”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Rajan Gupta “Mass-Gaps in Lattice Field Theories”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jai Sam Kim “General Methods for Analyzing Higgs Potentials”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gregory John Ball “A Proximity Formulation of Nuclear Dynamics”
committee member · 1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bradley A. Flanders “Application of TDHF Methods to Nuclear Physics”
committee member · 1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
George Michael Fuller “Nuclear Weak Interaction Rates During Stellar Evolution and Collapse”
committee member · 1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anthony Emerson Terrano “Topics in Perturbative Field Theory”
committee member · 1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Victor R. Akylas “Cascade of Negative Muons in Atoms”
committee member · 1978 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

At a glance

known as: physicist, politician, university teacher
fields: theoretical physics, climate change, energy industry
awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, 1998
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wikipedia: in 5 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaSteven E. Koonin
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1456085
stated by WikidataVIAF93196063
stated by WikidataGND1089283032
stated by WikidataIdRef085851531
stated by WikidataISNI0000000117754819

papers

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project159808

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1456085,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Steven E. Koonin: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1456085},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Steven E. Koonin: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1456085