Academic Ancestry

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Paul Scherrer

Swiss physicist1890 to 1969

Wikidata names Peter Debye as doctoral advisor and lists 48 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Paul Scherrer, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata48

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Max Robert Schafroth

    born 1923
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Amos de-Shalit

    born 1926

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 131 people: 131 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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