1907 - 1995
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, Rudolf Peierls ranks 427 out of 717. Before 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.
1871 - 1949
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 421
1865 - 1936
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 422
1818 - 1886
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 423
1958 - 2020
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 424
1904 - 1996
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 425
1889 - 1979
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 426
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 427
1915 - 1985
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 428
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 429
1917 - 1952
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 430
1841 - 1902
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 431
1706 - 1761
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 432
1922 - 2015
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 433
Among people born in 1907, Rudolf Peierls ranks 135. Before 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 105. Before 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.
1907 - 1990
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 129
1907 - 1948
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 130
1907 - 2001
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 131
1907 - 2004
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 132
1907 - 1977
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 133
1907 - 1967
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 134
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 135
1907 - 1957
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 136
1907 - 2000
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 137
1907 - 1996
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 138
1907 - 1991
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 139
1907 - 1941
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 140
1907 - 1984
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 141
1910 - 1995
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 99
1918 - 1995
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 100
1918 - 1995
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 101
1914 - 1995
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 102
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 103
1952 - 1995
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 104
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 105
1915 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 106
1917 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 107
1942 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 108
1941 - 1995
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 109
1913 - 1995
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 110
1921 - 1995
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 111
Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 2,591 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1899 - 1994
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 2,585
1888 - 1944
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 2,586
1863 - 1933
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 2,587
1929 - 2005
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 2,588
1889 - 1979
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 2,589
1843 - 1865
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 2,590
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 2,591
1834 - 1918
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 2,592
1829 - 1897
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 2,593
1912 - 1997
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 2,594
1796 - 1877
HPI: 53.37
Rank: 2,595
1383 - 1443
HPI: 53.37
Rank: 2,596
1891 - 1964
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 2,597
Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Peierls ranks 65. Before 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).
1687 - 1744
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 59
1882 - 1974
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 60
1896 - 1980
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 61
1881 - 1956
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 62
1865 - 1936
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 63
1889 - 1979
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 64
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 65
1865 - 1922
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 66
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 67
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 68
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 69
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 70
1825 - 1863
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 71