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

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