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Karl von Auwers

German chemist1863 to 1939

Wikidata names August Wilhelm von Hofmann as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Karl von Auwers, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata2

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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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