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  1. Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE FRS (/ ˈpaɪ.ərlz /; German: [ˈpaɪɐls]; 5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) 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 ...

  2. Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls was a German-born British physicist who laid the theoretical foundations for the creation of the first atomic bomb. From 1925 to 1929 Peierls studied at universities in Berlin and Munich before working with Werner Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig in studying the Hall.

  3. Sep 19, 1995 · Rudolf Peierls was one of the most influential of the German mathematical physicists who migrated and settled in Britain during the Nazi era.

  4. Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.

  5. Sep 22, 1995 · Sir Rudolph Peierls, the physicist whose surprising calculations at the University of Birmingham in England in 1940 helped paved the way for the atomic bomb five years later, died on Tuesday at a...

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  7. Rudolf Peierls. (1907 - 1995) Rudolf Ernst Peierls was born on June 5, 1907, in Berlin, Germany. The son of a Jewish businessman, he studied nuclear physics under the tutelage of Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli. His early work on quantum physics led to his development of the theory of positive carriers in 1929, which explained the thermal ...

  8. 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.

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