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Alfred Kleiner

Swiss physicist
Alfred Kleiner was a Swiss physicist and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich. He was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or Doktorvater. Initially Einstein's advisor was Heinrich F. Weber. However, they had a major falling... Wikipedia
Born: April 24, 1849, Maschwanden, Switzerland
Died: July 3, 1916 (age 67 years)
Academic advisor: Johann Jakob Müller
Doctoral students: Albert Einstein
Other notable students: Fritz Laager; Theodor Erismann
Thesis: Zur Theorie der intermittirenden Netzhautreizung (1874)