Academic Ancestry

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Hans Georg Dehmelt

German physicist1922 to 2017

Wikidata names Hans Kopfermann and Peter Brix as doctoral advisors and names Hans Kopfermann and Peter Brix as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Hans Georg Dehmelt, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Hans Kopfermann

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

    Peter Brix

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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.

Education and career4

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