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Peter Debye

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist1884 to 1966

Wikidata names Arnold Sommerfeld as doctoral advisor and lists 37 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata37

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Hertha Sponer

    born 1895
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Lars Onsager

    born 1903
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Oskar Georg Harnapp

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 190 people: 190 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career12

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