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Kurt Mühlethaler

Swiss cell biologist and professor at ETH Zurich1919 to 2002

Supervised 13 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1954 and 1985; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1948 under Albert Frey-Wyssling and Hans Pallmann; Wikidata lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Kurt Mühlethaler, pictured

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Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Albert Frey-Wyssling“Elektronenoptische Untersuchungen über den Feinbau von Gelen”

    1948 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    Hans Pallmann“Elektronenoptische Untersuchungen über den Feinbau von Gelen”

    1948 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students13

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

    Hans J. Moor

    born 1933

The line above and below2 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 15 people: 15 cited by thesis records.

Theses1

Education and career1

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

Works1

1948 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?