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Simon White

Also known as Simon D. M. White (OpenAlex)

British astronomerborn 1951

Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Cambridge; Wikidata names Donald Lynden-Bell as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Simon White, pictured

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 18 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 16 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex809

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Carlos Silvestre Frenk

    188 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Volker Springel

    133 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Adrian R. Jenkins

    77 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Guinevere Kauffmann

    72 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Julio F. Navarro

    56 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    G. De Lucia

    55 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    G. Efstathiou

    47 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    A. Helmi

    41 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Roberto P. Saglia

    38 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Dennis Zaritsky

    38 shared works

OpenAlex lists 799 more people who share a work with them.