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Rudolf Peierls
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Allied nuclear bomb programme. His 1996 obituary in Physics Today described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs".
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Born 5 June 1907 · Died 19 September 1995 · Q61735
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2009· 1 entry
1999· 1 entry
The Spectator garnered outrage from Peierls's family when it published an article by journalist Nicholas Farrell that alleged that Peierls was a spy for the Soviet Union
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-09-19.
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1994· 1 entry
Suffered a combination of health problems, including heart, kidney and lung problems, and relocated himself to Oakenholt, a nursing home near Farmoor, Oxfordshire
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1991· 1 entry
Won IOP Dirac Medal (1991).
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1986· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1986).
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Was awarded the Copley Medal, and delivered the Rutherford Memorial Lecture, and in 1991 he was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize
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1982· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (1980).
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1968· 2 entries
Won Guthrie Medal and Prize (1968).
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And wrote several books including Quantum Theory of Solids, The Laws of Nature (1955), Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1979), More Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1991) and an autobiography, Bird of Passage (1985)
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1963· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Won Lorentz Medal (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1959).
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1957· 2 entries
Due to what he saw as a lack of openness in security vetting at the request of the Americans, which he felt indicated a lack of trust in him on the part of senior staff; but he was invited to rejoin in 1960, and did so i
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The Americans expressed concerns about him, indicating that they were unwilling to share information with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell while he remained as a consultant
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1953· 1 entry
Began collecting his lecture notes on the subject into a book
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1952· 2 entries
Won Rutherford Medal and Prize (1952).
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The Royal Medal in 1959, the Lorentz Medal in 1962, the Max Planck Medal in 1963, the Guthrie Medal and Prize in 1968, the Matteucci Medal in 1982, and the Enrico Fermi Award from the United States Government for excepti
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1950· 1 entry
Maurice Pryce acted in the position in a part-time capacity, but when he went to America for a year on sabbatical, Peierls took his place
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1947· 1 entry
Wigner and Leonard Eisenbud developed a more widely used alternative method
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1946· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1946).
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Won Medal of Freedom (1946).
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Peierls became a consultant to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1945).
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1941· 1 entry
Its findings made their way to the United States through the report of the MAUD Committee, an important trigger in the establishment of the Manhattan Project and the subsequent development of the atomic bomb
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1938· 1 entry
Peierls paid visits to Copenhagen, where he collaborated with Bohr and George Placzek on a paper on what is now known as the Bohr–Peierls–Placzek relation
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1937· 1 entry
Mark Oliphant, the newly appointed Australian professor of physics at the University of Birmingham recruited him for a new chair there in applied mathematics
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1936· 1 entry
Mark Oliphant was appointed the professor of physics at the University of Birmingham, and he approached Peierls about a new chair in applied mathematics that he was creating there
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1933· 1 entry
But to remain in Britain, where he worked with Hans Bethe at the Victoria University of Manchester, then at the Mond Laboratory at Cambridge
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1932· 2 entries
Peierls was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to study abroad, which he used to study in Rome under Enrico Fermi, and then at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England under Ralph H
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Was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, which he used to study in Rome under Enrico Fermi, and then at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge under Ralph H
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1930· 1 entry
Peierls travelled to the Netherlands to meet Hans Kramers, and to Copenhagen to meet Niels Bohr
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1929· 4 entries
Became an assistant to Pauli at ETH Zurich
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Studied at Leipzig University (1928–1929).
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To lecture in America, China, Japan and India, and on his recommendation Peierls moved on to ETH Zurich, where he studied under Wolfgang Pauli
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Studied solid-state physics in Zurich under the tutelage of Heisenberg and Pauli
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1928· 1 entry
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1926–1928).
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1926· 2 entries
Peierls decided to transfer to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München to study under Arnold Sommerfeld, who was considered to be the greatest teacher of theoretical physics
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Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1925–1926).
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1921· 1 entry
And his father married Else Hermann, the sister-in-law of the playwright Ludwig Fulda
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-06-05.
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