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C. H. D. Buys Ballot

Dutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)1817 to 1890

Wikidata names Richard van Rees as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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C. H. D. Buys Ballot, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught9

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

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 23 people: 23 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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