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Arnold Benz

Astronomerborn 1945

Supervised 9 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 2001 and 2008; Wikidata names Ravi N. Sudan and Thomas Gold as doctoral advisors and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Arnold Benz, pictured

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Students9

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 31 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 22 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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