Oral history interview, 1980.

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Oral history interview, 1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77663317

Brief overview of childhood and education in Germany and Switzerland; Ph.D. with Wolfgang Pauli, 1931. Rockefeller Fellowship takes Peierls to Università di Roma, 1932-1933, and (after turning down a position at Universität Hamburg due to the political situation in Germany) to England in 1933. Talks about "silent acceptance of discriminination" at German universities; Erwin Schrödinger. From University of Cambridge to University of Manchester on a charity grant; comments on life there and contact with the British, other refugees, and refugee organizations. Professorship at University of Birmingham, from 1937; comments on teaching there. Enemy alien status and internment policy and evacuation of the Peierls' children to Canada in 1940. World War II work; Birmingham, England, then in the USA, from 1933; discussion of his relationshop with Klaus Fuchs; the use of the atomic bomb (J. Robert Oppenheimer); disarmament; integration; feelings about Britain.

2 cassettes, 2 hrs., 1 session [audiotape].

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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