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Frederick Hopkins

English biochemist1861 to 1947

Wikidata names Thomas Stevenson as doctoral advisor, lists 6 doctoral students, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Frederick Hopkins, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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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.

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

    Rudolph Peters

    born 1889
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    J.B.S. Haldane

    born 1892
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ernst Chain

    born 1906
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Luis Federico Leloir

    born 1906

The line above and below1 step

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 17 people: 17 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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