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Walther Hermann Nernst

German physical chemist and physicist1864 to 1941

Wikidata names Friedrich Kohlrausch and Ludwig Boltzmann as doctoral advisors and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata16

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught5

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

    Richard Abegg

    born 1869
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Edmond Bauer

    born 1880
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Irving Langmuir

    born 1881
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Luigi Casale

    born 1882
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Francis Simon

    born 1893

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 43 people: 43 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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