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Jan Hendrik Oort

Dutch astronomer1900 to 1992

Wikidata names Pieter Johannes van Rhijn as doctoral advisor, lists 16 doctoral students, names Jacobus Kapteyn, Johan Antony Barrau, and Julius Wolff as teachers, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Jan Hendrik Oort, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata16

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors3

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

    Jacobus Kapteyn

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johan Antony Barrau

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Julius Wolff

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

    Hugo van Woerden

    born 1926

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 86 people: 86 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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