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Wilhelm Ostwald

Baltic German chemist1853 to 1932

Wikidata names Arthur von Oettingen and Carl Schmidt as doctoral advisors and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata16

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.

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

    Friedrich Auerbach

    born 1870

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 58 people: 58 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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