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Gary Gibbons

Also known as Gary W. Gibbons (OpenAlex)

British theoretical physicistborn 1946

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Cambridge; Wikidata names Dennis W. Sciama and Stephen Hawking as doctoral advisors, lists 24 doctoral students, and names Stephen Hawking as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Gary Gibbons, 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

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata24

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 58 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 57 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex218

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christopher N Pope

    75 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mirjam Cvetič B

    44 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Stephen William Hawking

    32 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    H. Lü

    26 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    P. A. Horváthy

    25 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Paul K. Townsend

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Malcolm J. Perry

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christian Duval

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Claude Warnick

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Andrew Chamblin A

    11 shared works

OpenAlex lists 208 more people who share a work with them.