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Rudolf Peierls
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German-born British physicist
Person · Open Library
- 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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Film & TV
Acting · Berlin, Germany
Sir Rudolf Peierls was a German-British physicist.
Known for
- Väter der tausend Sonnen — Self - Interviewee1990
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1956-11-30
Discography
- Reine Nervensache1981
- Eine Form von Gewalt1982
- Der schwere Mut1983
- Ausnahmezustand1984
- Dein ist mein ganzes Herz1985
- Wunderkinder1986
- Einer für alle1988
- Gute Unterhaltung1989
- Brille1991
- Draufgänger1992
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,327x
- [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 14,058x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,130x
- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,906x
- The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing
· 2009 · cited 7,145x
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Quotes
- “Born approximation is a familiar and convenient approximation in handling scattering problems. It is adequate, or at least informative, in so many cases that we tend to develop the habit of using its first-order term without always checking the conditions for its applicability.”
- “At about this same time Dirac wrote a paper that proposed a general theory of how measurements should be described in quantum mechanics. Similar work was also done by P. Jordan in Göttingen. These two papers constitute what is called transformation theory, because they show how one can transform information gained by measuring one quantity into predicting information about another.”
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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
- Doctoral students
- Fred Hoyle , E. E. Salpeter , Gerald E. Brown , Stuart T. Butler , Walter Marshall , James S. Langer , John Stewart Bell , Stanley Mandelstam , Gastón García-Calderón
- Other notable students
- N. M. Butt , M. A. Beg
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Encyclopedic overview
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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