Paul Ehrenfest

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Ph.D. Universität Wien 1904 Austria
Dissertation: Die Bewegung starrer Körper in Flüssigkeiten und die Mechanik von Hertz [English: The Motion of Rigid Bodies in Fluids and the Mechanics of Hertz]
Mathematics Subject Classification: 70—Mechanics of particles and systems

Advisor: Ludwig Boltzmann

Students:
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NameSchoolYearDescendants
Burgers, JohannesUniversiteit Leiden1918687
Casimir, HendrikUniversiteit Leiden1931153
Coster, DirkUniversiteit Leiden1922176
Florin, HenriUniversiteit Leiden1934
Goudsmit, SamuelUniversiteit Leiden192719
Kramers, HendrikUniversiteit Leiden19191865
Krans, RoelfUniversiteit Leiden1931
Rutgers, ArendUniversiteit Leiden1930
Tinbergen, JanUniversiteit Leiden19291208
Tresling, JanUniversiteit Leiden1919
Uhlenbeck, GeorgeUniversiteit Leiden1927201

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