Academic Ancestry

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Tilman Esslinger

German physicist and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurichborn 1965

Supervised 54 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; Wikidata names Theodor W. Hänsch as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Tilman Esslinger, pictured

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Students54

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata1

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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 57 people: 56 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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