Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Dominic Welsh

Mathematician1938 to 2023

Supervised 5 doctoral students at University of Oxford; Wikidata names John Hammersley as doctoral advisor and lists 25 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata25

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 163 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 158 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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