biography
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Peierls, Sir Rudolph (Ernest)
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pronunciation:
[pairlz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–95)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig, becoming Pauli's assistant at Zürich. He travelled widely before becoming a professor at Birmingham (1937–63), Oxford (1963–74), and the University of Washington, Seattle (1974–7). He applied quantum theory to solids and to magnetic effects, and then turned to nuclear physics. In 1940 with Frisch he reported to the British government that an atomic bomb based on uranium fission was feasible, and worked on this (the Manhattan project) throughout World War 2. |
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