Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Malcolm Perry

British physicistborn 1951

Wikidata names Stephen Hawking as doctoral advisor and lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 2 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata15

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 30 people: 30 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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