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Herbert Spohn

German mathematicianborn 1946

Supervised 7 doctoral students at Technische Universität München; Wikidata names Georg Süßmann and Joel Lebowitz as doctoral advisors and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Herbert Spohn, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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

Students7

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 49 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 42 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage10

referee, not advisor