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Herbert Edelsbrunner

American-Austrian computer scientistborn 1958

Supervised 21 doctoral students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wikidata names Hermann Maurer as doctoral advisor and lists 26 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Herbert Edelsbrunner, pictured

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Students21

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata26

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 76 people: 21 cited by thesis records, 55 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage1

committee member, not advisor