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Paul Jaccard

Swiss botanist1868 to 1944

Supervised 50 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1910 and 1938; Wikidata lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Paul Jaccard, pictured

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Students50

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

    Walo Koch

    born 1896

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    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 498 people: 498 cited by thesis records.

    Education and career3

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