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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

French physicist1932 to 2007

Wikidata names André Herpin, Charles Kittel, and Francis Perrin as doctoral advisors and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata3

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Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 32 people: 32 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career11

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