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David Wallace

Scottish physicist (1945–)born 1945

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Edinburgh. College Science and Engineering. Scool of Informatics; doctorate at The University of Edinburgh in 1952; Wikidata names Peter Higgs as doctoral advisor and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata7

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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 23 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 22 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career5

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Works1

1952 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?