John Archibald Wheeler
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University 1933
Dissertation:
Theory of the Dispersion and Absorption of Helium
Advisor: Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plesset, Milton | Yale University | 1932 | 29 |
| Feynman, Richard | Princeton University | 1942 | 48 |
| Wightman, Arthur | Princeton University | 1949 | 901 |
| Tiomno, Jayme | Princeton University | 1950 | 6 |
| Everett III, Hugh | Princeton University | 1957 | |
| Misner, Charles | Princeton University | 1957 | 58 |
| Ernst, Frederick | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1958 | 1 |
| Brill, Dieter | Princeton University | 1959 | 34 |
| Klauder, John | Princeton University | 1959 | 24 |
| Shepley, Lawrence | Princeton University | 1965 | 2 |
| Thorne, Kip | Princeton University | 1965 | 295 |
| Geroch, Robert | Princeton University | 1967 | 45 |
| Fischer, Arthur | Princeton University | 1969 | 1 |
| Christodoulou, Demetrios | Princeton University | 1971 | 39 |
| Unruh, William | Princeton University | 1971 | 6 |
| Hu, Bei-Lok | Princeton University | 1972 | 38 |
| Wald, Robert | Princeton University | 1972 | 5 |
| Ford, Lawrence | Princeton University | 1974 | 10 |
| Hojman, Sergio | Princeton University | 1975 | 5 |
| Kheyfets, Arkady | University of Texas at Austin | 1986 | 1 |
| Miller, Warner | University of Texas at Austin | 1986 | 1 |
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