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Rudolf Peierls

Rudolf Peierls

German-British physicist
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE FRS 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. Wikipedia
Born: June 5, 1907, Berlin, Germany
Died: September 19, 1995 (age 88 years), Oxford, United Kingdom