Gerald E. Brown
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Gerald Edward Brown was an American theoretical physicist who worked on nuclear physics and astrophysics. Since 1968 he had been a professor at the Stony Brook University. He was a distinguished profe
Gerald E. Brown
Rudolf Peierls
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Alli
Gerald E. Brown
…Yale University, where in 1950 he earned his PhD (under Gregory Breit). In 1957 he earned his D.Sc. from the University of Birmingham in England (under Rudolf Peierls), where he was from 1955 docent and in 1959/60 was professor for theoretical physics. From 1960 to 1985 he was a professor at NORDITA in Copenhagen and…
Peierls in 1966
The Poynting Physics building at the University of Birmingham. Its mode of construction helped give rise to the phrase "redbrick university".
Peierls in 1937
Plaque commemorating the Frisch-Peierls memorandum at the University of Birmingham's Poynting Physics Building