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Hendrik Lorentz

Dutch physicist1853 to 1928

Wikidata names Pieter Rijke as doctoral advisor and lists 25 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Hendrik Lorentz, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata25

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 220 people: 220 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career4

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