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Philip Wadler

American computer scientistborn 1956

Supervised 7 doctoral students at The University of Edinburgh; Wikidata names Guy L. Steele Jr. and Nico Habermann as doctoral advisors and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Philip Wadler, pictured

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Students7

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

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 13 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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