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unusual facts about doctoral advisor



Pieter Nieuwland

The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Nieuwland as being the doctoral advisor of one student at Leiden, Simon Speijert van der Eyk, through whom he has over 600 academic descendants.


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Jon Claerbout

Claerbout has been a doctoral advisor to many of influential geophysicists who joined SEP such as Oz Yilmaz and Biondo Biondi.

Mary Bowerman

Her doctoral advisor was famed California botanist Willis Linn Jepson; she was his last surviving student.