Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1969 August 11 to 13.

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Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1969 August 11 to 13.

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Aspects of Peierls' life and his work in theoretical physics. Physicists and physics research in Manchester, Cambridge, Birmingham and other British institutions, beginning in 1933 after Rockefeller Fellowship in Rome and Cambridge. Observations on Russian physics. Peierls marries Russian physicist. Trips to Russia in the 1930s; attitude toward fission and his work with Otto R. Frisch on the possibility of developing the atomic bomb; impressions of the U.S. in 1942 and his war work which was involved with atomic energy research. Other topics discussed are: James Chadwick's cyclotron; Lord Cherwell's accelerator at Oxford; Cecil F. Powell's discovery of the pion and development of photographic emulsion techniques; background of the Klaus Fuchs case; postwar experimental work at Birmingham University; his role in postwar development of quantum electrodynamics; participation in conferences; the effect of atomic energy on world politics. Postwar concern with broad-based issues in academic, social and political fields.

Transcript, 160 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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