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promoter, prof. Ludin. On 30 June it was (oral) exam; Prof. Ludin listened to his presentation without any comment. Right after the presentation, Ludin only gave some derogatory remarks and left. Shields never spoke to him again. Shields did not even have a copy of the dissertation, which he had lent to one of the examiners. A few days later, he received a message that his dissertation had been assessed with a “Gut” (a 7 on scale 1 to 10). Shields was disappointed with this result and wanted to go home as soon as possible. It was customary at that time for a dissertation to appear in print only after it was defended. The director of PVWS, Prof. Seifert, promised to send
Shields 200 copies of the dissertation; Shields, however, was never allowed to receive it.
117:, but they had no vacancy. Finally, he found a job at the S&S (Stokes & Smith?) Corrugated Paper Machinery Co., Inc. in Brooklyn near New York, where he worked briefly before leaving for Germany. He has mainly worked on improving paper machines, and has received a number of patents for this purpose. In 1973 he became head of the engineering department. This job and the income from the patents gave him a financially good position. When he retired, he was able to afford a winter home in Florida and a summer home in Connecticut next to his home Forest Hills (a district of New York). He never published anything in the field of sediment transport again.
67:). This investigation was initiated by Franz Eisner, who had committed suicide in 1933 because he had been expelled from his position by the Nazis. Shields was given the office of Eisner (Eisner had committed suicide in this office) and he was assigned two assistants. Shields continued to work on the investigation that had been initiated before him by Hans Kramer and Hugh John Casey (both also American bursals in Germany). Since Shields as a mechanical engineer had no background knowledge in this, he had to make it his own first. His promoter was Dr. Ing. Adolf Ludin, a convinced
54:, where he received his master’s degree in 1933. He then received a scholarship from the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst and studied in Germany at the Preussische Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau und Schiffbau (Prussian Research Institute for Water and Shipbuilding); PVWS). His intention was to get his PhD there on a subject in shipbuilding (the TH Berlin was at that time leading in this area). However, the grant was very limited and only covered the cost of living in Germany and not the travel costs. Shields paid for his crossing by working on a freighter to Germany.
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who made a trip through Europe during that period. Rouse then had a draft of his dissertation, and was very impressed. He used this information in two publications of 1939. By 1940, the concept of bed stability of
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My heartiest thanks for the very kind letter you have written me! This has been an especially appreciated since it is not only the first thing I have heard about that work but is even the first comment that has been made on it to
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find his name at a convention (on mechanical engineering) later in 1939 and found his address. He then wrote a letter to
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