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Geoffrey Grimmett

Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge and Master, Downing College, Cambridgeborn 1950

Wikidata names Dominic Welsh and John Hammersley as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Geoffrey Grimmett, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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