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Victor Weisskopf

Austrian American theoretical physicist1908 to 2002

Wikidata names Eugene Paul Wigner and Max Born as doctoral advisors and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    John David Jackson

    born 1925
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Murray Gell-Mann

    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 157 people: 157 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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