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Paul Ehrenfest

Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist1880 to 1933

Wikidata names Ludwig Boltzmann as doctoral advisor and lists 14 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata14

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught6

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

    Gunnar Nordström

    born 1881
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Yurii Aleksandrovich Krutkov

    born 1890
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Dirk Jan Struik

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

    Enrico Fermi

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

    Samuel Goudsmit

    born 1902
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hendrik Casimir

    born 1909

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 279 people: 279 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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