Alexei Filippenko: advisors and students

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Alexei Filippenko

Also known as A. V. Filippenko (OpenAlex)

American astronomerborn 1958

Wikidata names Wallace L. W. Sargent as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.

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

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

OpenAlex lists 3,051 more people who share a work with them.

known as: astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher, physicist
fields: telescope, black hole, Hubble Space Telescope
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Petrie Prize Lecture, 1997, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, 2007, Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy, 1992
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Astronomical Union
Wikipedia: in 15 languages

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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