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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist1831 to 1879
Wikidata names William Hopkins as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.
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Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata5
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1842
- stated by Wikidataborn 1849
- stated by Wikidataborn 1851
- stated by Wikidataborn 1852
- stated by Wikidataborn 1854
Taught4
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 supervisionborn 1849
- a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervisionborn 1851
- a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervisionborn 1852
- a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervisionborn 1854
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 Hopkins
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataAdam Sedgwick
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Dawsonstated by WikidataThomas Jones
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward Waringstated by WikidataThomas Postlethwaite
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 33 people: 33 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career8
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- 1841 to 1847studied
- 1847 to 1850studied
- 1850 to 1851studied
- 1851 to 1854studied
- 1856 to 1860worked
- 1860 to 1866worked
- 1871 to 1879worked
- undatedstudied