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Phillip Sharp

Also known as Phillip A. Sharp (OpenAlex)

American biologistborn 1944

Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students, names James Watson as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Phillip Sharp, pictured

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Students on Wikidata3

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

    James Watson

Taught1

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

    Andrew Fire

    born 1959

The line above and below

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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career4

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

    Coauthors in OpenAlex832

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

    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Richard A. Young

      20 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Dean R Tantin

      19 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Christopher B. Burge

      17 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Victoria E. H. Wang

      16 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Joe Sambrook

      14 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Maria M. Konarska

      14 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Caroline Schild‐Poulter

      14 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Robert J.G. Haché

      14 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Richard A. Padgett

      13 shared works
    • indexed by OpenAlex

      Tyler Jacks

      12 shared works

    OpenAlex lists 822 more people who share a work with them.