Rudolf Peierls

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Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1929 Germany
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

Students:
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NameSchoolYearDescendants
Salpeter, EdwinUniversity of Birmingham194826
Preston, MelvinUniversity of Birmingham19491
Ravenhall, DavidUniversity of Birmingham19502
Swiatecki, WladyslawUniversity of Birmingham19502
Flowers, BrianUniversity of Birmingham1953
Brenner, SheilaUniversity of Birmingham19544
Bell, JohnUniversity of Birmingham1956
Brown, GeraldUniversity of Birmingham19571
Langer, JamesUniversity of Birmingham19582
MacDowell, SamuelUniversity of Birmingham19581
Boya Balet, LuisUniversitat de Barcelona196483
Reading, JohnUniversity of Birmingham19641
Scheffler, BernhardUniversity of Oxford19701
Hoyle, FredUniversity of Cambridge315

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