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Harvey Williams Cushing

American neurosurgeon1869 to 1939

Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students on Wikidata3

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Walter Dandy
born 1886
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Wilder Penfield
born 1891
stated by Wikidata
John Farquhar Fulton
born 1899

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 supervision
Thierry de Martel
born 1875
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
William Sharpe
born 1882
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Walter Dandy
born 1886
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Wilder Penfield
born 1891

The line above and below

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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

undated
Harvard Medical School
studied
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Yale University
studied
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Harvard University
worked
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Yale University
worked

At a glance

known as: physician, neuroscientist, neurosurgeon, university teacher, neurologist, writer, biographer, surgeon, medical historian, bibliophile, pathologist
fields: surgery
awards: Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1913, Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1926, honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, 1929, Lister Medal, 1930, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1933, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, 1933, Sterling Professor, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1933, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1930, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Académie Nationale de Médecine, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, National Academy of Sciences, from 1917, Bibliographical Society, 1928 to 1939, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wikipedia: in 37 languages

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Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaHarvey Cushing
stated by WikidataWikidataQ380038
stated by WikidataVIAF76395316
stated by WikidataGND119377152
stated by WikidataIdRef032703295
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109174240

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project105984

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q380038,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Harvey Williams Cushing: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q380038},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Harvey Williams Cushing: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q380038