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Nikolai Koltsov

Russian scientist1872 to 1940

Wikidata names Mikhail Menzbier and Q28950437 as doctoral advisors, lists 9 doctoral students, and lists 16 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Nikolai Koltsov, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught16

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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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 21 people: 21 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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