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Charles Adolphe Wurtz

French chemist1817 to 1884

Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students, names Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Justus von Liebig as teachers, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Charles Adolphe Wurtz, 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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Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

Taught4

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

    August Kekulé

    born 1829
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Édouard Grimaux

    born 1835
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

    born 1841
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Paul Freundler

    born 1874

The line above and below

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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career7

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