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William Lawrence Bragg

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer1890 to 1971

Wikidata names Joseph John Thomson and William Henry Bragg as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    John Desmond Bernal

    born 1901
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    John Rodgers

    born 1914

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 24 people: 24 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career10

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