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Rudolf Peierls

1907 - 1995

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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (; 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 University of Berlin, at the University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld, the University of Leipzig under Werner Heisenberg, and ETH Zurich under Wolfgang Pauli. After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig in 1929, he became an assistant to Pauli in Zurich. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Peierls is the 456th most popular physicist (down from 404th in 2019), the 2,733rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,240th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Peierls ranks 456 out of 851. Before him are Richard C. Tolman, Albert W. Hull, Chester Carlson, Henri Tresca, Leonard Susskind, and Anatole Abragam. After him are Erich Hückel, Marie Alfred Cornu, Johanna Budwig, Hendrik Casimir, Clarence Zener, and Jürgen Ehlers.

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Among people born in 1907, Rudolf Peierls ranks 141. Before him are Yasushi Inoue, Bruno Munari, John Anderson, Bo Gu, Max Pauly, and Yves Allégret. After him are Ethel Smith, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sergei Kruglov, Violette Leduc, and Parvin E'tesami. Among people deceased in 1995, Rudolf Peierls ranks 114. Before him are Fred West, Gisela Mauermayer, David Marshall, Vladimír Dzurilla, Leila Mourad, and Dmitri Shepilov. After him are Luis Regueiro, Viktoria Brezhneva, Józef Maria Bocheński, Sergio Bertoni, Giancarlo Baghetti, and Heinrich Sutermeister.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 2,734 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Mayer (1843), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Bernhard Windscheid (1817), Andreas Möller (1967), Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), and Johannes Werner (1468). After him are Adolf Hühnlein (1881), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Paul de Lagarde (1827), Philipp Spitta (1841), Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1632), and Karl Krumbacher (1856).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 63. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Paul Drude (1863), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Ernst Chladni (1756), and Walther Meissner (1882). After him are Erich Hückel (1896), Johanna Budwig (1908), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), and Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687).

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