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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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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Tube Alloys (section Frisch–Peierls memorandum)
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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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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Department of Physics, University of Oxford (redirect from Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics)
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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A Peierls transition or Peierls distortion is a distortion of the periodic lattice of a one-dimensional crystal. Atomic positions oscillate, so that the...
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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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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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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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Notable alumni, faculty and researchers include Pope Benedict XVI, Rudolf Peierls, Josef Mengele, Richard Strauss, Walter Benjamin, Joseph Campbell, Muhammad...
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Toroidal solenoid (section Peierls' concerns)
of his proposal to Rudolf Peierls, then at the University of Birmingham. Peierls immediately pointed out a concern; both Peierls and Thomson had been...
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MAUD Committee (section Frisch–Peierls memorandum)
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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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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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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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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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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& 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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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 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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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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where he earned his doctorate in 1948 under the supervision of Sir Rudolf Peierls. He spent the remainder of his career at Cornell University, where he...
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interactions between nearest neighbors. Mainly through following studies by Rudolf Peierls, Hendrik Kramers, Gregory Wannier and Lars Onsager the model proved...
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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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Rudolph (name) (redirect from Rudolf)
botanist Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German physician and biologist Rudolf Wolf (1816–1893), Swiss astronomer and mathematician Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995)...
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Several world-renowned scientists attended the conference, including Rudolf Peierls, Léon Rosenfeld, William Fowler as well as Meghnad Saha, Vikram Sarabhai...
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All Souls College (now Emeritus) and a Professor of Physics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. He was a Visiting Professor and then...
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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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