Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Quentin Parker

Professor of astronomy and astrophysics, Ph.D. University of St. Andrews 1986

Wikidata names Harvey T. MacGillivray and Philip W. Hill as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 3 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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