Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Philippa Black

New Zealand geologist academic (b. 1941)born 1941

Wikidata names Ernest Johnstone Searle and Raymond Brothers as doctoral advisors, lists 5 doctoral students, and names Ernest Johnstone Searle and Raymond Brothers as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and VIAF.

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

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Theses

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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 7 people: 7 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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