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Roger Blandford

Also known as Roger D. Blandford (OpenAlex)

British theoretical astrophysicistborn 1949

Wikidata names Martin Rees as doctoral advisor and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Roger Blandford, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

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 22 people: 22 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex887

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Léon V. E. Koopmans

    57 shared works
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    Christopher D. Fassnacht

    55 shared works
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    T. J. Pearson

    48 shared works
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    Anthony C. S. Readhead

    41 shared works
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    Peter N. Wilkinson

    36 shared works
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    David W. Hogg

    34 shared works
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    Philip J. Marshall

    33 shared works
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    I. W. A. Browne

    31 shared works
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    Neal J Jackson

    30 shared works
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    Tommaso Treu

    29 shared works

OpenAlex lists 877 more people who share a work with them.