Rudolf Schulten
Rudolf Schulten | |
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Rudolf Schulten | |
| Born | August 16, 1923 |
| Died | April 27, 1996 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Known for | the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design |
| Awards | Otto Hahn Prize(1972) Werner von Siemens Ring(1987) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Doctoral advisor | Werner Heisenberg |
Rudolf Schulten (16 August 1923 – 27 April 1996) was a German physicist who was professor at RWTH Aachen University and the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design, which was originally invented by Farrington Daniels. Schulten's concept compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like graphite spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor.