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Alfred Kleiner (April 24, 1849–July 3, 1916) was Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zürich, and was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or Doktorvater. Initially Einstein's advisor was H. F. Weber. However, they had a major falling out, and Einstein chose to switch to Kleiner. He received his PhD in 1874 from the University of Zürich, for a thesis entitled Zur Theorie der intermittirenden Netzhautreizung, under Johann Jakob Müller. Alfred Kleiner was professor of physics at... full article at wikipedia
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