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Bruce Allen

Also known as B. Allen (OpenAlex)

American physicistborn 1959

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover and Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover between 2017 and 2026; Wikidata names Stephen Hawking as doctoral advisor, lists 11 doctoral students, and names Stephen Hawking as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Bruce Allen, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

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

    Stephen Hawking

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 27 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 25 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex373

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Maria Alessandra Papa

    21 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    E. P. S. Shellard

    20 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Bernd Machenschalk

    20 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    H.-B. Eggenstein

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Adrian C. Ottewill

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert R. Caldwell

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    R. Prix

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Joseph D. Romano

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    C. J. Clark

    10 shared works
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    Benjamin Knispel

    10 shared works

OpenAlex lists 363 more people who share a work with them.