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Beno Eckmann

Swiss mathematician1917 to 2008

Supervised 33 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1941 under Ferdinand Gonseth and Heinz Hopf; Wikidata lists 65 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Beno Eckmann, pictured

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Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Ferdinand Gonseth“Zur Homotopietheorie gefaserter Räume”

    1941 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Heinz Hopf“Zur Homotopietheorie gefaserter Räume”

    1941 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students33

Students on Wikidata65

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 1184 people: 176 cited by thesis records, 1,023 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career3

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

Works1

1941 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?