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Sir Rudolf Peierls (Berlino, 5 giugno 1907 – Oxford, 19 settembre 1995) è stato un fisico britannico. Tedesco di nascita, divenne cittadino britannico nel 1938 ed ebbe un ruolo importante nel programma nucleare militare britannico .
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE FRS (/ ˈ p aɪ. ər l z /; German:; 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.
1 giu 2024 · Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (born June 5, 1907, Berlin, Germany—died September 19, 1995, Oxford, England) was a German-born British physicist who laid the theoretical foundations for the creation of the first atomic bomb.
19 set 1995 · Rudolf Peierls was one of the most influential of the German mathematical physicists who migrated and settled in Britain during the Nazi era.
His early work on quantum physics led to his development of the theory of positive carriers in 1929, which explained the thermal and electrical conductivity behaviors of semiconductors. Peierls moved to Birmingham, England, when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
Born into an assimilated Jewish family in Berlin in the early twentieth century, Rudolf Peierls studied theoretical physics with many of the greatest minds within the physics community, including Sommerfeld, Heisenberg, Pauli and Bohr.
