Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

W. G. Unruh

Also known as William George Unruh (OpenAlex)

Canadian physicistborn 1945

Wikidata names John Archibald Wheeler as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and names John Archibald Wheeler as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

W. G. Unruh, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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.

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 6 people: 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex186

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ralf Schützhold

    27 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Marlan O. Scully

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert M. Wald

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Silke Weinfurtner

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Qingdi Wang

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jonathan Oppenheim

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Cisco Gooding

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Bojan Losic

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Benni Reznik

    6 shared works

OpenAlex lists 176 more people who share a work with them.