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    Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE FRS (/ˈpaɪ.ərlz/; German: [ˈpaɪɐls]; 5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a major...
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  • perfect order of the 1-D crystal is broken. It is named after Rudolf Peierls. Peierls' theorem states that a one-dimensional equally spaced chain with...
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    Peierls 1985, pp. 82–86. Peierls 1985, pp. 89–93. Peierls 1985, pp. 99–104. Peierls 1985, pp. 115–118. Peierls 1985, pp. 127–128. Peierls, Rudolf. "Frisch...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0852-6. OCLC 43615254. Peierls, Rudolf (2007). Sir Rudolf Peierls: Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence. Singapore:...
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    his return. With war on his mind, he and the physicist Rudolf Peierls produced the Frisch–Peierls memorandum at the University of Birmingham, which was...
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    accommodation was scarce in wartime Birmingham, he stayed with Rudolf and Genia Peierls. Fuchs and Peierls did some important work together, which included a fundamental...
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  • Peierls stress (or Peierls-Nabarro stress, also known as the lattice friction stress) is the force (first described by Rudolf Peierls and modified by...
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  • Ising model (redirect from Peierls argument)
    }\geq c(\beta )>0.} This was first proven by Rudolf Peierls in 1936, using what is now called a Peierls argument. The Ising model on a two-dimensional...
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  • The Peierls substitution method, named after the original work by Rudolf Peierls is a widely employed approximation for describing tightly-bound electrons...
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    and Rudolf Peierls at the University of Birmingham re-examined the theoretical issues involved in a paper that became known as the Frisch–Peierls memorandum...
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    Following the discovery of nuclear fission in uranium, scientists Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch at the University of Birmingham calculated, in March...
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    on to win Nobel Prizes, while others, most notably, Walter Heitler, Rudolf Peierls, Karl Bechert, Hermann Brück, Paul Peter Ewald, Eugene Feenberg, Herbert...
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    The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. The department consists of multiple buildings and sub-departments...
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    Committee was founded in response to the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which was written in March 1940 by Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch, two physicists who were...
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    & Peierls 1977, p. 243 Cassidy 1992, Appendix A Mott & Peierls 1977, p. 224 Heisenberg 1928, as cited in Mott & Peierls 1977, p. 243 Mott & Peierls 1977...
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  • Copenhagen-type interpretations have included Lev Landau, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Peierls, Asher Peres, Léon Rosenfeld, and Ray Streater. Throughout much of the...
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  • quantum field theory. The germ of the idea passed from Heisenberg to Rudolf Peierls, who noted that electrons in a magnetic field can be regarded as moving...
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    Notable alumni, faculty and researchers include Pope Benedict XVI, Rudolf Peierls, Josef Mengele, Richard Strauss, Walter Benjamin, Joseph Campbell, Muhammad...
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  • in the thermodynamic limit and is named after Lev Landau (1937) and Rudolf Peierls (1934). This instability prevails in one-dimensional ordering of atoms/molecules...
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    project. The Maud Committee was set up following the work of Frisch and Rudolf Peierls who calculated uranium-235's critical mass and found it to be much smaller...
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  • known for his colorful objections to incorrect or careless thinking. Rudolf Peierls documents an instance in which "a friend showed Pauli the paper of a...
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    Progress was slow in the United States, but in Britain, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, two refugee physicists from Germany at the University of Birmingham...
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    for the Super, reporting directly to Oppenheimer. He was replaced by Rudolf Peierls from the British Mission, who in turn brought in Klaus Fuchs, who was...
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  • electronic CDW forms, and the Peierls gap opens up at ±kF. Below the Peierls transition temperature, a complete Peierls gap leads to thermally activated...
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  • any theory of its scope and maturity ever will be".: 531  Likewise, Rudolf Peierls took the message of Bell's theorem to be that, because the premise of...
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    the University of California in February 1941. In Britain, Frisch and Rudolf Peierls at the University of Birmingham had made a breakthrough investigating...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-691012-07-0. List of Jewish Nobel laureates Peierls, Rudolf (1960). "Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 1900–1958". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows...
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  • physicist who is currently the Wykeham Professor of Physics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, known for...
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    University of Birmingham-based scientists Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls author the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, calculate that an atomic bomb might need as...
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    supersonic flow and shock waves. The volume was reviewed by Rudolf Peierls. In his review, Peierls argued that covering hydrodynamics and elastics together...
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