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Ralph H. Fowler

English physicist1889 to 1944

Wikidata names Archibald Hill and Ernest Rutherford as doctoral advisors and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata20

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Paul Dirac

    born 1902
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Homi Jehangir Bhabha

    born 1909

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 568 people: 568 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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