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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. In 1932, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, which he used to study in Rome under Enrico Fermi, and then at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge under Ralph H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Peierls has received more than 291,858 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Rudolf Peierls is the 403rd most popular physicist (up from 427th in 2019), the 2,240th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,588th in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Physicist.

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Over the past year Rudolf Peierls has had the most page views in the with 52,293 views, followed by German (9,721), and Chinese (5,280). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (137.36%), Malagasy (102.18%), and Ukrainian (87.37%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Peierls ranks 403 out of 851. Before him are Samuel Goudsmit, Hantaro Nagaoka, Chester Carlson, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Nick Holonyak, and Ányos Jedlik. After him are Walther Gerlach, John Canton, Wander Johannes de Haas, John Dollond, Edwin Hall, and Stefan Hell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Rudolf Peierls ranks 116. Before him are Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Daigoro Kondo, Álvaro Gestido, Helmut Walcha, Ilona Elek, and Ayub Khan. After him are Pierre Pflimlin, George de Mestral, Sabahattin Ali, Roger Peyrefitte, Marcel Bezençon, and Dixie Dean. Among people deceased in 1995, Rudolf Peierls ranks 92. Before him are Sylvester Stadler, Peter van de Kamp, Václav Neumann, Ann Dunham, Leila Mourad, and Arturo Frondizi. After him are Ida Lupino, Juan Carlos Onganía, Pancho Gonzales, Dirceu, Srinagarindra, and Georgy Beregovoy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 2,240 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Louis of Nassau (1538), and Walter Eucken (1891). After him are Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796), Fritz Hofmann (1871), Karl Mauss (1898), Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 59. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), and Friedrich Paschen (1865). After him are Walther Gerlach (1889), Johanna Budwig (1908), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walther Meissner (1882), and Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865).

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