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Arnold Sommerfeld

German physicist1868 to 1951

Wikidata names Ferdinand von Lindemann as doctoral advisor and lists 41 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Arnold Sommerfeld, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata41

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.

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

    Miguel A. Catalán

    born 1894
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Linus Pauling

    born 1901
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hans Bethe

    born 1906

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 886 people: 886 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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