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François Arago

French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician1786 to 1853

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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François Arago, pictured

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Students on Wikidata1

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Taught5

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

    Auguste Comte

    born 1798
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean-Daniel Colladon

    born 1802
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier

    born 1812
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hippolyte Fizeau

    born 1819
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Émile Gautier

    born 1822

The line above and below

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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career5

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