He used the summer months of his graduate studies to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper ( thesis advisor ), physicist George Gamow, and chemist Melvin Calvin.

The idea of MWI originated in Everett's Princeton Ph. D. thesis " The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction ", developed under his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler, a shorter summary of which was published in 1957 entitled " Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics " ( Wheeler contributed the title " relative state "; Everett originally called his approach the " Correlation Interpretation ", where " correlation " refers to quantum entanglement ).

thesis advisor was Dave Farber.

Malina's thesis advisor was aerodynamicist Theodore von Kármán, who eventually arranged for U. S. Army financial support for this " GALCIT Rocket Project " in 1939.

He obtained his doctorate in 1919 with the thesis Über beschränkte Funktionen die in gegebenen Punkten vorgeschriebene Werte annehmen ; his thesis advisor was Ernst Lindelöf.

Brattain's advisor was John T. Tate Sr., and his thesis was on electron impact in mercury vapor.

On August 27, 2008 he was stripped of his named Arden Bement Jr. Professorship, and forbidden to be a thesis advisor for graduate students for at least the next 3 years.

In 1902 he earned his Ph. D. from the Sorbonne with the seminal thesis on " Integral, Length, Area ", submitted with Borel, four years older, as advisor.

His thesis advisor was Bob Sproull.

His doctoral advisor was Tom Leighton, and his thesis was on probabilistic analysis of bin-packing algorithms.

His thesis advisor was relativist Kip Thorne.

Brouwer then " embarked on a self-righteous campaign to reconstruct mathematical practice from the ground up so as to satisfy his philosophical convictions "; indeed his thesis advisor refused to accept his Chapter II " ' as it stands, ... all interwoven with some kind of pessimism and mystical attitude to life which is not mathematics, nor has anything to do with the foundations of mathematics ' " ( Davis, p. 94 quoting van Stigt, p. 41 ).

At Tufts, the monument is the site of an " inauguration ceremony " for students who receive Ph. D. s in cosmology, in which a thesis advisor drops an apple on the student's head.

This formed the basis of his seminal Radiative and Photochemical Processes in Mesospheric Dynamics that was published in four parts in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences between 1965 and 1966 .< ref > See also The first of these, Part I: Models for Radiative and Photochemical Processes, was co-authored with his Harvard colleague and former Ph. D. thesis advisor, Richard M. Goody, who is well known for his 1964 textbook Atmospheric Radiation.

Lindzen recalls his discovery of the mechanism underlying the QBO in the semi-autobiographical review article, On the development of the theory of the QBO .< ref > His interest in the phenomenon began in 1961 when his Ph. D. advisor, Richard M. Goody, speculated that the 26 month relaxation time for stratospheric ozone at in the tropics might somehow be related to the 26 month period of the QBO, and suggested investigation of this idea as a thesis topic.

After leaving to work with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, Safdie was approached by Sandy van Ginkel, his former thesis advisor, to develop the master plan for Expo 67, the world's fair that was set to take place in Montreal during 1967.

Throughout the years, Thorne has served as a mentor and thesis advisor for many leading theorists who now work on observational, experimental, or astrophysical aspects of general relativity.

* dissertation-a written treatise or thesis, usually lengthy, usually authored by a doctoral candidate, usually directed by a faculty advisor, and usually intended to advance the state of the art in a given discipline.

This committee, consisting of a primary supervisor or advisor and two or more committee members, supervises the progress of the dissertation and may also act as the examining committee, or jury, at the oral examination of the thesis ( see below ).

His thesis advisor was Karol Borsuk.

Working closely with Markowitz, which in practice " filled a role similar to that of dissertation advisor ", Sharpe earned his Ph. D. in 1961 with a thesis on a single factor model of security prices, also including an early version of the Security Market Line.

His notional thesis advisor was Axel Thue, even though Thue had died in 1922.

This was his thesis topic for his Ph D at Cambridge supervised by John Lennard-Jones.

OXO, a graphical version of tic-tac-toe, was created by A. S. Douglas in 1952 at the University of Cambridge, in order to demonstrate his thesis on human-computer interaction.

It was here that Perutz decided that Cambridge was the place where he wanted to work for his Ph. D. thesis.

Her thesis was completed in 1965 under the tutorship of Robert Hinde, former master of St. John's College, Cambridge, titled " Behavior of the Free-Ranging Chimpanzee ," detailing her first five years of study at the Gombe Reserve.

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

This work was the basis of her Ph. D. thesis The physical chemistry of solid organic colloids with special reference to coal for which Cambridge University awarded her a Ph. D. in 1945.

He then travelled to England to arrange the English publication of his book by Sampson Low, speaking at the Oxford ( and Cambridge ) Union after which his thesis " Resolved, that the works of William Shakespeare were composed by Francis Bacon " was put to an unsuccessful vote.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

Chris Smith was born in Barnet, England and educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class honours degree in English and a PhD with a thesis on Coleridge and Wordsworth.

PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

She read Classics at Cambridge University where she was a Choral Scholar and took a Diplôme d ' Etudes Approfondis ( M. Phil ) at Paris IV, La Sorbonne in Philosophy, submitting a thesis on L ' autorité de l ' Etat in French.

After attending Eton College, he read for a law degree at Magdalene College of University of Cambridge where he wrote a thesis on the House of Lords.

The story is told in first person by Michael " Puppy " Young, a young history student at Cambridge University on the verge of completing his doctoral thesis on the early life of Adolf Hitler and his mother.

After leaving Duke University, Fels was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, where his Duke Ph. D thesis was published as The British Prices and Incomes Board by Cambridge University Press.

His 1955 thesis at the University of Cambridge described a new theory termed " dihomology ", an algebraic structure associated to a topological space, containing both homology and cohomology, introducing what is now known as the Zeeman spectral sequence.

Bicheno, Cambridge University thesis, 1976

Cambridge: Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph. D. thesis.

He was awarded a PhD in 1972 for a thesis on aesthetics, also from Cambridge.

It was written by Alexander S. Douglas as an illustration for his Ph. D. thesis on human-computer interaction for the University of Cambridge.

He was brought up in Catton on the outskirts of Norwich and went to Wymondham College before going to study for a Ph. D. in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University ( Churchill College ) in 1982, although he did not complete his thesis and so did not become Dr. Gascoyne .< ref >