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Michel Plancherel

Swiss mathematician1885 to 1967

Supervised 29 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names Mathias Lerch as doctoral advisor, lists 30 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Michel Plancherel, 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.

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Students29

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata30

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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 484 people: 148 cited by thesis records, 353 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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