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Mason Porter

American mathematicianborn 1976

Supervised 7 doctoral students at University of Oxford between 2012 and 2017; Wikidata names Richard Liboff as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Mason Porter, pictured

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Students7

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata23

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 33 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 23 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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