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James R. Rice

American scientist in engineering of solid mechanicsborn 1940

Wikidata names Ferdinand P. Beer as doctoral advisor and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata13

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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 40 people: 40 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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