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Friedrich Wöhler

German chemist1800 to 1882

Wikidata names Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Leopold Gmelin as doctoral advisors and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Friedrich Wöhler, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

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

    Wilhelm Heraeus

    born 1827
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Wilhelm Kühne

    born 1837

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 85 people: 85 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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