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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 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Rudolf Peierls is the 427th most popular physicist (down from 421st in 2019), the 2,591st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,480th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Peierls ranks 427 out of 717Before him are Martin Knudsen, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Jules Jamin, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Yulii Khariton, and Walther Gerlach. After him are Evgeny Lifshitz, Alain Aspect, Sameera Moussa, Marie Alfred Cornu, John Dollond, and Gene Amdahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Rudolf Peierls ranks 135Before him are George de Mestral, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Walter Frentz, Sergei Kruglov, and Isaac Deutscher. After him are Álvaro Gestido, Ursula Kuczynski, Annabella, Yasushi Inoue, Parvin E'tesami, and Ernesto Mascheroni. Among people deceased in 1995, Rudolf Peierls ranks 105Before him are Sylvester Stadler, Bobby Riggs, Adolfo Pedernera, Juan Carlos Onganía, Viktoria Brezhneva, and Dirceu. After him are André Frossard, Isang Yun, Vladimír Dzurilla, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Edith Pargeter, and Georgy Beregovoy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 2,591 out of 6,142Before him are Anni Albers (1899), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Walther Gerlach (1889), and Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (1843). After him are Ewald Hering (1834), Prince William of Baden (1829), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), and Otto Ciliax (1891).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 65Before him are Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Walther Meissner (1882), Erich Hückel (1896), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), and Walther Gerlach (1889). After him are Heinrich Rubens (1865), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Otto Lehmann (1855), and August Beer (1825).