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Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti

Italian physicist1791 to 1863

Wikidata names Vincenzo Brunacci as doctoral advisor and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Enrico Betti

    born 1823
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Luigi Ridolfi

    born 1824
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Orazio Silvestri

    born 1835

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.

Education and career3

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