Academic Ancestry

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John Desmond Bernal

Irish scientist1901 to 1971

Wikidata names William Henry Bragg as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

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.

Taught4

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

    Dorothy Hodgkin

    born 1910
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Florence Bell

    born 1913
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Max Perutz

    born 1914
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alan Lindsay Mackay

    born 1926

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 28 people: 28 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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