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
Education: Leipzig University (1928–1929), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1926–1928), The University of Manchester, and more
Academic advisors: Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Arnold Sommerfeld, and more
Awards: Max Planck Medal, Matteucci Medal, Copley Medal, and more
Children: Ronald F. Peierls
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