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Paul Townsend

Also known as Paul K. Townsend (OpenAlex)

British physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridgeborn 1951

Wikidata names Howard J. Schnitzer as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 15 people: 15 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex121

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Eric Bergshoeff

    52 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jorge G. Russo

    26 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Olaf Hohm

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Luca Mezincescu

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

    21 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Gary William Gibbons

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Germán Sierra

    18 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jerome P. Gauntlett

    16 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Paul Howe

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    CHRISTOPHER M. HULL

    13 shared works

OpenAlex lists 111 more people who share a work with them.