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Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Ph.D.

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1937-1963 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 
 1963-1974 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 
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Physics
Website:
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2007.0003
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(1907 - 1995)
Mathematics Genealogy incorrectly mentions Werner Heisenberg as one of Peierls' PhD advisors. In fact, Peierls' prepared his dissertation under Wolfgang Pauli in Zürich, but since he was not allowed to have his PhD defense there he submitted his dissertation to the University of Leipzig, where he defended his thesis under Friedrich Hund and Peter Debye. In his dissertation Peierls explicitly mentions Pauli, Hund and Debye; Heisenberg is not mentioned in the acknowledgement.
Kant, Horst, Peierls, Sir Rudolf in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), S. 160 f. [Onlinefassung]
Rudolf Peierls, Zur kinetischen Theorie der Wärmeleitung in Kristallen Inaugural-Dissertation Leipzig (1929)
Angenommen von der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Abteilung der Philosophischen Fakultät auf Grund der Gutachten der Herren Hund und Debye Die Anregung zu dieser Arbeit verdanke ich Hrn. Prof. Pauli , der mich auch bei ihrer Durchführung mit vielen wertvollen Ratschlägen unterstutzte
https://books.google.com/books?id=ETMeAQAAMAAJ
Als Heisenberg im Februar 1929 in die Vereinigten Staaten reist, verläßt auch Rudolf Peierls Leipzig und geht an die ETH in Zürich zu Wolfgang Pauli, darf aber dort nach nur einem Semester seine von Pauli angeregte Doktorarbeit „Zur kinetischen Theorie der Wärmeleitung in Kristallen" nicht verteidigen und kehrt im Juli 1929 nach Leipzig zurück, wo er bei Friedrich Hund und Peter Debye - Heisenberg ist noch auf Reisen - zum Dr. phil. promoviert wird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Peierls
DOI: 10.1002/andp.19293950803
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0003
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http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Peierls.shtml
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4816-1
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4817
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Parents

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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld research assistant 1926-1928 Universität München
Werner Heisenberg research assistant 1928-1929 Universität Leipzig
Peter J. W. Debye grad student 1929 Universität Leipzig
Friedrich Hermann Hund grad student 1929 Universität Leipzig
 (Zur kinetischen Theorie der Wärmeleitung in Kristallen.)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli post-doc 1929-1932 ETH Zürich

Children

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Fred Hoyle research assistant 1937 Cambridge
Brian Flowers grad student University of Manchester
George Kirczenow grad student
Walter Marshall grad student
Hugh McManus grad student 1947 University of Birmingham
Edwin E. Salpeter grad student 1948 University of Birmingham
George Klaus Horton grad student 1949 University of Birmingham
Melvin A. Preston grad student 1949 University of Birmingham
Władysław J. Świątecki grad student 1950 University of Birmingham
Gordon Feldman grad student 1953 University of Birmingham
Stanley Mandelstam grad student 1953-1956 Birmingham University
Gerald E. Brown grad student 1957 University of Birmingham
Themis Kanellopoulos grad student 1957 University of Birmingham
James S. Langer grad student 1958 University of Birmingham
Samuel Wallace MacDowell grad student 1958 University of Birmingham
Robin B. Stinchcombe grad student 1960 University of Birmingham (UK)
Donald Sprung grad student 1961 Oxford
Sidney Leeman grad student 1967 Oxford (Neurotree)
Gastón García-Calderón grad student 1970-1973 Oxford
Henry Pierre Noyes post-doc 1951 University of Birmingham
Freeman John Dyson post-doc 1949-1951 University of Birmingham
Nina Byers post-doc 1956-1958 University of Birmingham
Prabahan Kemal Kabir post-doc 1957-1958 Birmingham University
John W. Clark post-doc 1961-1961 University of Birmingham
N. David Mermin post-doc 1961-1963 University of Birmingham
Klaus Fuchs research scientist 1941-1943 University of Birmingham
Joseph Solomon Levinger research scientist 1957 University of Birmingham

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Otto Robert Frisch collaborator 1940 University of Birmingham
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Frisch OR, Peierls RE. (2013) Keeper file seeing a super-bomb Air Force Magazine. 96: 55
Peierls RE. (1980) Recollections of early solid state physics Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 371: 28-38
Atalay B, Mann A, Peierls RE. (1973) Perturbation theory for projected states II. Convergence criteria and a soluble model Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 335: 251-266
Peierls RE. (1973) Perturbation theory for projected states Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 333: 157-170
Brown GE, Peierls RE, Woodward JB. (1954) The Coherent Scattering of $\gamma $-rays by K Electrons in Heavy Atoms. I. Method Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 227: 51-58
Peierls RE. (1952) The Commutation Laws of Relativistic Field Theory Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 214: 143-157
FERRETTI B, PEIERLS RE. (1947) Radiation damping theory and the propagation of light. Nature. 160: 531
Bohr N, Peierls R, Placzek G. (1939) Nuclear Reactions in the Continuous Energy Region Nature. 144: 200-201
BETHE HA, HOYLE F, PEIERLS R. (1939) Interpretation of Beta-Disintegration Data Nature. 143: 200-201
Peierls R. (1932) Zur Theorie der Absorptionsspektren fester Körper Annalen Der Physik. 405: 905-952
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