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John Ockendon

British mathematician, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxfordborn 1940

Supervised 3 doctoral students (4 students at any level) at Oxford University, UK and University of Oxford; Wikidata names Alan B. Tayler as doctoral advisor and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata20

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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 152 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 148 stated by Wikidata.

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