Sir Rudolf Peierls
Born on 5th of June 1907
Died on 19th of September 1995
Born 1907 - Berlin, Germany. Died 1995 - British theoretical physicist.
Son of a Jewish businessman. Studied nuclear physics in Leipzig. Moved to England when Hitler gained power. With Otto Frisch wrote a paper explaining how a uranium fission bomb could be a weapon that could win the Second World War. In 1943 Peierls joined the Manhattan Project in the United States, developing the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Wrote several books including The Laws of Nature (1955), Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1979) and an autobiography, Bird of Passage (1985). Died in Oxford on 19th September, 1995.
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