Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Kingman

Statistician, Professor of Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridgeborn 1939

Wikidata names David George Kendall and Peter Whittle as doctoral advisors, lists 9 doctoral students, and names David George Kendall as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

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.

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 139 people: 139 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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