Rudolf Peierls
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- Born
- 1907-06-05
- Died
- 1995-09-19
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Zur kinetischen Theorie der Wärmeleitung in Kristallen
- Surprises in Theoretical Physics
- More Surprises in Theoretical Physics
- Selected Papers
- Bird of Passage
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Sir Rudolf Peierls was a German-British physicist.
Known for
- Väter der tausend Sonnen — Self - Interviewee1990
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5 total works indexed
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 15,989x
- [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 13,654x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,461x
- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,679x
- The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing
· 2009 · cited 6,984x
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Key facts
- Born
- Rudolf Ernst Peierls , 5 June 1907, Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia in the German Empire
- Died
- 19 September 1995 (1995-09-19) (aged 88), Oxford , Oxfordshire , England
- Citizenship
- German (1907–1940), British (1940–1995)
- Alma mater
- Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Leipzig University , University of Manchester , St John's College, Cambridge
- Awards
- Commander of the Order, of the British Empire (1946), Medal of Freedom (1946), Royal Medal (1959), Lorentz Medal (1962), Max Planck Medal (1963), Knight Bachelor (1968), Enrico Fermi Award (1980), Matteucci Medal (1982), Copley Medal (1986)
- Fields
- Physicist
- Institutions
- University of Manchester , University of Cambridge , University of Birmingham , New College, Oxford , University of Washington , Manhattan Project
- Thesis
- Zur kinetischen Theorie der Wärmeleitung in Kristallen (1929)
- Doctoral advisor
- Werner Heisenberg
- Other academic advisors
- Wolfgang Pauli
Key dates
- Born
- 5 June 1907
- Died
- 19 September 1995
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernst
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- nuclear physicist
- Educated at
- Leipzig University
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- German
Article
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 described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs".
Peierls studied physics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Arnold Sommerfeld, Leipzig University under Werner Heisenberg, and ETH Zurich under Wolfgang Pauli. After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig University in 1929, he became an assistant to Pauli at ETH Zurich. In 1932, he 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. Fowler. Because of his Jewish background, he elected to not return home after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, but to remain in Britain, where he worked with Hans Bethe at the Victoria University of Manchester, then at the Mond Laboratory at Cambridge. In 1937, 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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1907 births1995 deaths20th-century British physicists20th-century German physicistsAcademics of the University of BirminghamAlumni of St John's College, CambridgeBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyCommanders of the Order of the British EmpireEnrico Fermi Award recipientsFellows of New College, OxfordFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences