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Max Planck

German theoretical physicist1858 to 1947

Wikidata names Alexander von Brill as doctoral advisor, lists 18 doctoral students, names Gustav Bauer and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel as teachers, and lists 9 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Max Planck, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

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.

Taught9

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

    Max Abraham

    born 1875
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Max von Laue

    born 1879
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Moritz Schlick

    born 1882
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Walther Meissner

    born 1882
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Kurd von Mosengeil

    born 1884
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Walter H. Schottky

    born 1886
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Gustav Ludwig Hertz

    born 1887
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Walther Bothe

    born 1891
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Dietrich Prinz

    born 1903

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 75 people: 75 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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