Academic Ancestry

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Carl August Zehnder

Swiss computer scientistborn 1937

Wikidata names Eduard Stiefel and Hans Künzi as doctoral advisors and lists 17 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Carl August Zehnder, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata17

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Rolf Pfeifer

    born 1947

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 39 people: 39 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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