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Walo Koch

Swiss botanist1896 to 1956

Supervised 17 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1935 and 1956; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1926 under Paul Jaccard and Carl Schröter; Wikidata names Carl Joseph Schröter and Paul Jaccard as teachers and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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Walo Koch, pictured

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Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis record

    Paul Jaccard“Die Vegetationseinheiten der Linthebene”

    1926 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    Carl Schröter“Die Vegetationseinheiten der Linthebene”

    1926 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students17

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.

Taught1

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

    Alfred Kurth

    born 1916

The line above and below1 step

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 96 people: 96 cited by thesis records.

Theses1

Education and career2

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

Works1

1926 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?