sentences:  As a result, Riedler and Adolf Slaby (1849–1913) convinced Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859–1941) to allow Prussian technical universities to award doctorates.Although the government did not immediately consent, this effort led eventually to the school's reconstitution as today's Technical University of Berlin.Riedler first received international recognition for his reports on the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876) and Paris Exposition Universelle (1878).