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Authorised form of name	Peierls; Sir; Rudolf Ernst (1907 - 1995)
Other forms of name	Rudolph
Dates	1907 - 1995
Nationality	British
Date of birth	05/06/1907
Date of death	19/09/1995
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	22/03/1945
Age at election	37
RSActivity	Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1959; Copley Medal 1986
Source	Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 52 pp 265-284 by Sabine Lee AssocMaterial: CSAC 52/6/77, NCUACS 57/6/95. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford References: David Thouless, 'Two Pioneers of Modern Theoretical Physics', review of H A Bethe, Selected Works of Hans A Bethe, With Commentary and R H Dalitz and Sir Rudolf Peierls, Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls, With Commentary in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 282-288 G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262 R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 Dr T V Attwood, 'Uranium Isotope Separtion in the UK during World War II' Ph.D thesis, 2004
Code	NA3216

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