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Ludwig Prandtl

German physicist1875 to 1953

Wikidata names August Föppl as doctoral advisor and lists 96 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Ludwig Prandtl, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata96

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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 599 people: 599 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career4

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