Charles William Misner
Ph.D. Princeton University 1957
Dissertation:
Outline of Feynman Quantization of General Relativity; Derivation of Field Equations; Vanishing of The Hamiltonian
Mathematics Subject Classification: 83—Relativity and gravitational theory
Advisor 1: John Archibald Wheeler
Advisor 2: Arnold Ephraim Ross
Students:
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brans, Carl | Princeton University | 1961 | 1 |
| Baierlein, Ralph | Princeton University | 1962 | |
| Shepley, Lawrence | Princeton University | 1965 | 2 |
| Hernandez, Jr., Walter | University of Maryland College Park | 1966 | |
| Isaacson, Richard | University of Maryland College Park | 1967 | |
| Matzner, Richard | University of Maryland College Park | 1967 | 13 |
| Maitra, Samaresh | University of Maryland College Park | 1968 | |
| Vishveshwara, C. | University of Maryland College Park | 1968 | |
| Oakes, Michael | University of Cambridge | 1969 | |
| Ryan, Jr., Michael | University of Maryland College Park | 1970 | |
| Berger, Beverly | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | |
| Chitre, D. | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | |
| Fishbone, Leslie | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | |
| Moncrief, Vincent | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | 7 |
| Breuer, Reinhard | Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | 1973 | |
| Chrzanowski, Paul | University of Maryland College Park | 1973 | |
| Nester, James | University of Maryland College Park | 1977 | 3 |
| Hiscock, William | University of Maryland College Park | 1979 | |
| Isenberg, James | University of Maryland College Park | 1979 | 10 |
| Honan, Terrence | University of Maryland College Park | 1986 | |
| Somers, Mark | University of Maryland College Park | 1986 | |
| Stephens, Christopher | University of Maryland College Park | 1986 | 1 |
| Fiske, David | University of Maryland College Park | 2004 | |
| Schiff, Conrad | University of Maryland College Park | 2005 |
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