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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Indian-American astrophysicist1910 to 1995

Wikidata names Arthur Eddington and Ralph H. Fowler as doctoral advisors and lists 21 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata21

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Arthur Eddington

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 279 people: 279 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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