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  1. 1999 Sep 15th Died in Oxford, England. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Resources. Biographies. Rudolph Peierls. 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.

  4. Rudolf Peierls’ calculations of the critical mass of uranium may have been his scientific contribution with the most far-reaching consequences, but it was not his most significant scientific achievement.

  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...

  6. Trinity Site. Sir Rudolf Peierls was a German-born physicist. He worked with Wolfgang Pauli in Switzerland, and moved to England when Hitler rose to power in 1933. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow colleague Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.

  7. Dec 1, 2007 · Abstract. Born into an assimilated Jewish family in Berlin in the early twentieth century, Rudolf Peierls studied theoretical physics with many of the greatest minds within the physics community, including Sommerfeld, Heisenberg, Pauli and Bohr.

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