Rudolf Peierls

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British scientist German emigrant human nuclear physicist theoretical physicist university teacher

Rudolf Peierls was a German-born British theoretical physicist whose work on nuclear chain reactions and advocacy helped spur the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British scientist → German emigrant → human → nuclear physicist → theoretical physicist → university teacher →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Knight Bachelor → Max Planck Medal → Royal Medal →
coAuthorOf	Frisch–Peierls memorandum →
countryOfBirth	German Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	Germany → United Kingdom →
countryOfDeath	United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1907-06-05 →
dateOfDeath	1995-09-19 →
doctoralAdvisor	Werner Heisenberg →
educatedAt	University of Berlin → University of Leipzig → University of Munich → University of Zürich →
employer	Los Alamos Laboratory → University of Birmingham → University of Manchester → University of Oxford NERFINISHED →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Peierls →
fieldOfWork	nuclear physics → solid-state physics → theoretical physics →
givenName	Rudolf →
honorificTitle	Sir →
knownFor	advocacy that helped initiate the British atomic bomb program → contributions to nuclear chain reaction theory → work on the feasibility of atomic weapons during World War II →
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned	English → German →
memberOf	Manhattan Project → Royal Society →
notableIdea	Peierls bracket → Peierls instability → Peierls substitution → Peierls transition →
notableStudent	Abdus Salam →
notableWork	Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist → Frisch–Peierls memorandum → Quantum Theory of Solids → Surprises in Theoretical Physics → The Development of Nuclear Physics → The Laws of Nature →
placeOfBirth	Berlin →
placeOfDeath	Oxford →
positionHeld	Head of Theoretical Physics Department at University of Birmingham → Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford →
religion	Judaism →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Genia Peierls →
workLocation	Birmingham → Oxford →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Frisch–Peierls memorandum →	author
Otto Frisch →	collaboratedWith
Frisch–Peierls memorandum ("Rudolf Peierls (self-initiated with Otto Frisch)") →	commissionedBy
Edwin E. Salpeter →	doctoralAdvisor
Max Planck Medal →	hasRecipient
Tube Alloys programme →	keyPerson
MAUD Committee →	member
British Mission to the Manhattan Project →	notableMember
Rudolf Peierls ("Genia Peierls") →	spouse