Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1985 April 7.

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Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1985 April 7.

Interview conducted in connection with study of the German atomic bomb program 1940-1945.

Preliminary transcript.

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