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Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist1871 to 1937

Wikidata names Alexander William Bickerton and Joseph John Thomson as doctoral advisors and lists 33 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Alexander William Bickerton
stated by Wikidata
Joseph John Thomson

Students on Wikidata33

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Alexander McAulay
born 1863
stated by Wikidata
Harriet Brooks
born 1876
stated by Wikidata
Frederick Soddy
born 1877
stated by Wikidata
Tadeusz Godlewski
born 1878
stated by Wikidata
Hans Geiger
born 1882
stated by Wikidata
Robert William Boyle
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Ernest Marsden
born 1889
stated by Wikidata
Ralph H. Fowler
born 1889
stated by Wikidata
James Chadwick
born 1891
stated by Wikidata
Edward Victor Appleton
born 1892
stated by Wikidata
Pyotr Kapitsa
born 1894
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Leicester McAulay
born 1895
stated by Wikidata
Charles Drummond Ellis
born 1895
stated by Wikidata
Douglas Hartree
born 1897
stated by Wikidata
John Cockcroft
born 1897
stated by Wikidata
Leslie Fleetwood Bates
born 1897
stated by Wikidata
Patrick Blackett
born 1897
stated by Wikidata
Henry DeWolf Smyth
born 1898
stated by Wikidata
Nazir Ahmed
born 1898
stated by Wikidata
Leslie H. Martin
born 1900
stated by Wikidata
Mark Oliphant
born 1901
stated by Wikidata
C. E. Wynn-Williams
born 1903
stated by Wikidata
Cecil Frank Powell
born 1903
stated by Wikidata
Ernest Walton
born 1903
stated by Wikidata
Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry
born 1903
stated by Wikidata
Norman Feather
born 1904
stated by Wikidata
Yulii Khariton
born 1904
stated by Wikidata
George Laurence
born 1905
stated by Wikidata
Bernice Weldon Sargent
born 1906
stated by Wikidata
Norman Alexander
born 1907
stated by Wikidata
Philip Burton Moon
born 1907
stated by Wikidata
David Shoenberg
born 1911
stated by Wikidata
Henry De Wolf Smyth

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
Joseph John Thomson

Taught15

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
Frederick Soddy
born 1877
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Suekichi Kinoshita
born 1877
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Otto Hahn
born 1879
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Hans Geiger
born 1882
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Niels Bohr
born 1885
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Charles Galton Darwin
born 1887
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
James Chadwick
born 1891
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Edward Victor Appleton
born 1892
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Pyotr Kapitsa
born 1894
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Cockcroft
born 1897
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Patrick Blackett
born 1897
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Felisa Martín Bravo
born 1898
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Mark Oliphant
born 1901
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ernest Walton
born 1903
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Norman Foster Ramsey
born 1915

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 WikidataAlexander William Bickertonstated by WikidataJoseph John Thomson
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn William Strutt
3 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward Routhstated by WikidataJames Clerk Maxwellstated by WikidataSir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAugustus De Morganstated by WikidataIsaac Todhunterstated by WikidataWilliam Hopkins

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 261 people: 261 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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

1898 to 1907
McGill University
worked
1907 to 1919
Victoria University of Manchester
worked
1919 to 1937
Cavendish Laboratory
worked
undated
University of Canterbury
studied
undated
University of Cambridge
studied
undated
Trinity College
studied
undated
Nelson College
studied
undated
University of Manchester
worked

At a glance

known as: nuclear physicist, chemist, physicist, professor, politician, university teacher
fields: physics, nuclear physics, chemistry, radioactivity
degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Science
awards: Hector Medal, 1916, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1908, Matteucci Medal, 1913, Copley Medal, 1922, Franklin Medal, 1924, Elliott Cresson Medal, 1910, Fellow of the Royal Society, Faraday Lectureship Prize, 1936, Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1936, Faraday Medal, 1930, Rumford Medal, 1904, Albert Medal, 1928, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, 1920, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, from 1919, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Guthrie Lecture, 1927, T. K. Sidey Medal, 1933, Bressa Prize, 1903, Knight Bachelor, Order of Merit, Silliman Memorial Lectures, 1905, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, 1910, IET Kelvin Lecture, 1922, Faraday Medal and Prize, Echegaray Medal, 1931, Dalton Medal, 1919, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, 1925, honorary doctor of the University of New Zealand, 1931, Person of National Historic Significance
member of: Order of Merit, Royal Society of London, from 1903, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1904, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, from 1911, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1922, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1918
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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaErnest Rutherford
stated by WikidataWikidataQ9123
stated by WikidataVIAF66546175
stated by WikidataGND118750488
stated by WikidataIdRef027711978
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121373664

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@misc{academicancestry_Q9123,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Ernest Rutherford: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q9123},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Ernest Rutherford: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q9123