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Dennis W. Sciama

British physicist1926 to 1999

Wikidata names Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley, Hermann Bondi, and Paul Dirac as doctoral advisors and lists 40 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata40

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

    Paul Dirac

Taught3

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

    Roger Penrose

    born 1931
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    George F. R. Ellis

    born 1939
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Stephen Hawking

    born 1942

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 589 people: 589 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

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