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Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner1901 to 1976

Wikidata names Arnold Sommerfeld as doctoral advisor and lists 33 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata33

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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

    Ariyama Kanetaka

    born 1904
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Erich Bagge

    born 1912
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ivan Supek

    born 1915
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Friedwardt Winterberg

    born 1929

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 388 people: 388 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career10

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