sentences:  His work on the thermodynamics of fuels used in V2-rockets was continued by Malcolm Hebb and their techniques are now known as the Hebb-Wagner polarisation method.Wagner was a professor of metallurgy at MIT from 1949 until 1958.He then returned to Germany to take up the position of Director of the Max Planck Institute of Physical Chemistry at Göttingen, which was vacant to due the untimely death of Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer In 1961 he produced a paper on the theory of the ageing of precipitates by dissolution-reprecipitation Ostwald ripening  now known as the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner - theory, which helps predict the rate of coarsening in alloys.