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Abdus Salam

Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient1926 to 1996

Wikidata names Nicholas Kemmer and Paul Taunton Matthews as doctoral advisors and lists 29 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata29

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught7

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

    Fayyazuddin

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Walter Gilbert

    born 1932
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ghulam Dastagir Alam

    born 1933
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Faheem Hussain

    born 1942
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Abdul Hameed Nayyar

    born 1945
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jonathan Ashmore

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

    Pervez Hoodbhoy

    born 1950

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 391 people: 391 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career15

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