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James Binney

Also known as James Jeffrey Binney (OpenAlex)

British astronomerborn 1950

Supervised 9 doctoral students at University of Oxford, Oxford University, UK, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI between 1986 and 2016; Wikidata names Dennis W. Sciama as doctoral advisor and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Students9

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata20

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 38 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 27 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex366

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Joss Bland‐Hawthorn

    40 shared works
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    T. Zwitter

    40 shared works
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    G. M. Seabroke

    38 shared works
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    Quentin Andrew Parker

    38 shared works
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    A. Helmi

    37 shared works
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    Julio F. Navarro

    36 shared works
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    O. Bienaymé

    36 shared works
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    Gerard F. Gilmore

    36 shared works
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    Eva K. Grebel

    36 shared works
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    Brad K. Gibson

    35 shared works

OpenAlex lists 356 more people who share a work with them.