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Peter L. Knight

Also known as P. L. Knight (OpenAlex)

British physicistborn 1947

Wikidata names Leslie Allen as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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 33 people: 33 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex303

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Martin Bodo Plenio

    44 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christopher C. Gerry

    44 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Vlatko Vedral

    33 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christoph H. Keitel

    32 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Emmanuel Paspalakis

    30 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Vladimír Bužek

    28 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Keith R. Burnett

    26 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Bryan J. Dalton

    26 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    M. Protopapas

    24 shared works
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    Stefan Scheel

    21 shared works

OpenAlex lists 293 more people who share a work with them.