Arthur B. McDonald: advisors and students

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Arthur B. McDonald

Canadian physicist (born 1943)born 1943

Supervised 3 doctoral students; Wikidata names William Alfred Fowler as doctoral advisor and names William Alfred Fowler as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students3

cited by a thesis record
Ryan MacLellan “The energy calibration for the solar neutrino analysis of all three phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ryan Martin “An Analysis of the 3-He Proportional Counter Data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Using Pulse Shape Discrimination”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mark Szymon Kos “Low energy solar neutrino analysis of the salt phase of the Sudbury neutrino observatory”
2008 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
William Alfred Fowler

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
William Alfred Fowler

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataWilliam Alfred Fowler
2 steps up
stated by WikidataCharles Lauritsen
3 steps up
stated by WikidataRobert Andrews Millikan
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAlbert Abraham Michelsonstated by WikidataOgden Rood

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 6 people: 6 cited by thesis records.

Education and career6

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

1965 to 1969
California Institute of Technology
studied
undated
Dalhousie University
studied
undated
Sydney Academy
studied
undated
Princeton University
worked
undated
Queen's University
worked
undated
Chalk River Laboratories
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist
fields: physics
degrees: Doctor of Sciences
awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 2015, Benjamin Franklin Medal, 2007, Henry Marshall Tory Medal, 2011, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2016, Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, 2003, Order of Ontario, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, 2003, Cocconi Prize, 2013, Companion of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society, 2009, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019, Clarivate Citation Laureates, 2007, Order of Nova Scotia
member of: Royal Society of London, 2009, Royal Society of Canada, National Academy of Sciences, from 2016
Wikipedia: in 66 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaArthur B. McDonald
stated by WikidataWikidataQ710597
stated by WikidataVIAF103902243
stated by WikidataGND110779787X
stated by WikidataISNI0000000075632580

papers

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Arthur B. McDonald: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q710597},
  note = {read on 2026-11-05}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, November 5). Arthur B. McDonald: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-11-05]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q710597