Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Raymond Laflamme

Canadian theoretical physicist1960 to 2025

Supervised 11 doctoral students (18 students at any level) at University of Waterloo; Wikidata names Stephen Hawking as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and names Stephen Hawking as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

Raymond Laflamme, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students18

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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

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 13 people: 11 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career2

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