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Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author1942 to 2018

Wikidata names Dennis W. Sciama as doctoral advisor and lists 42 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata42

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.

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

    Dennis W. Sciama

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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

    Gary Gibbons

    born 1946
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Wu Zhongchao

    born 1946
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Don Page

    born 1948
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Bernard Carr

    born 1949
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Malcolm Perry

    born 1951
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Bruce Allen

    born 1959
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Raymond Laflamme

    born 1960
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Fay Dowker

    born 1965
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Raphael Bousso

    born 1971

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 216 people: 216 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career11

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