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Max Waldmeier

Swiss astronomer, solar researcher and professor at ETH Zurich1912 to 2000

Supervised 4 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1960 and 1967; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1936 under Franz Tank and William Brunner; Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student and names Franz Tank and William Otto Brunner as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Max Waldmeier, 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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Theses1

Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis record

    Franz Tank“Neue Eigenschaften der Sonnenfleckenkurve”

    1936 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    William Brunner“Neue Eigenschaften der Sonnenfleckenkurve”

    1936 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students4

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Franz Tank

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

    William Otto Brunner

The line above and below2 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 25 people: 22 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Works1

1936 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?