Rudolf Schulten

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Rudolf Schulten
Rudolf Schulten
Born	(1923-08-16)August 16, 1923 Südlohn
Died	April 27, 1996(1996-04-27) (aged 72) Aachen
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)—professor at RWTH Aachen University—was 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.