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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ralph Baierlein | Princeton University | 1962 | |
| Beverly Berger | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | |
| Carl Brans | Princeton University | 1961 | |
| Reinhard Breuer | Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | 1973 | |
| D. Chitre | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | |
| Paul Chrzanowski | University of Maryland College Park | 1973 | |
| Leslie Fishbone | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | |
| David Fiske | University of Maryland College Park | 2004 | |
| Walter Hernandez, Jr. | University of Maryland College Park | 1966 | |
| William Hiscock | University of Maryland College Park | 1979 | |
| Terrence Honan | University of Maryland College Park | 1986 | |
| Richard Isaacson | University of Maryland College Park | 1967 | |
| James Isenberg | University of Maryland College Park | 1979 | 6 |
| Samaresh Maitra | University of Maryland College Park | 1968 | |
| Richard Matzner | University of Maryland College Park | 1967 | 5 |
| Vincent Moncrief | University of Maryland College Park | 1972 | 5 |
| James Nester | University of Maryland College Park | 1977 | 1 |
| Michael Oakes | University of Cambridge | 1969 | |
| Michael Ryan, Jr. | University of Maryland College Park | 1970 | |
| Conrad Schiff | University of Maryland College Park | 2005 | |
| Lawrence Shepley | Princeton University | 1965 | 2 |
| Mark Somers | University of Maryland College Park | 1986 | |
| Christopher Stephens | University of Maryland College Park | 1986 | |
| C. Vishveshwara | University of Maryland College Park | 1968 |
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