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Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Swedish and American meteorologist1898 to 1957

Wikidata names Erik Ivar Fredholm as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Carl-Gustaf Rossby, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 115 people: 115 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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