a person in the record
Hans-Walter Rix
German astronomerborn 1964
Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Arizona; Wikidata names Simon White as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Students2
- cited by a thesis record
Daniel Howard McIntosh“A search for young lenticular galaxies in nearby rich clusters”
2001 · University of Arizona · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gregory Howard Rudnick“The rest-frame optical properties of high-redshift galaxies”
2001 · University of Arizona · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata2
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
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 WikidataSimon White
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataDonald Lynden-Bell
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataLeon Mestel
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataFred Hoyle
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 5 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- undatedstudied
- undatedstudied
- undatedworked
Sat beside the lineage1
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Laird Miller Close“High resolution near-infrared imaging with tip-tilt adaptive optics.”
committee member · 1995 · University of Arizona · doctoral