Rudolf Peierls
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1929
Dissertation:
Zur kinetischen Theorie der
Waermeleitung
Mathematics Subject Classification: 80—Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer
Advisor: Werner Karl Heisenberg
Advisor 2: Friedrich Hund
Advisor 3: Peter Joseph William Debye
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salpeter, Edwin | University of Birmingham | 1948 | 26 |
| Preston, Melvin | University of Birmingham | 1949 | 1 |
| Ravenhall, David | University of Birmingham | 1950 | 2 |
| Swiatecki, Wladyslaw | University of Birmingham | 1950 | 2 |
| Flowers, Brian | University of Birmingham | 1953 | |
| Brenner, Sheila | University of Birmingham | 1954 | 4 |
| Bell, John | University of Birmingham | 1956 | |
| Brown, Gerald | University of Birmingham | 1957 | 1 |
| Langer, James | University of Birmingham | 1958 | 2 |
| MacDowell, Samuel | University of Birmingham | 1958 | 1 |
| Boya Balet, Luis | Universitat de Barcelona | 1964 | 84 |
| Reading, John | University of Birmingham | 1964 | 1 |
| Scheffler, Bernhard | University of Oxford | 1970 | 1 |
| Hoyle, Fred | University of Cambridge | 328 |
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