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
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
Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
Rudolf Peierls
…physics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Arnold Sommerfeld, Leipzig University under Werner Heisenberg, and ETH Zurich under Wolfgang Pauli. After receiving his DPhil from Leipzig University in 1929, he became an assistant to Pauli at ETH Zurich. In 1932…
Heisenberg in 1933
Heisenberg in 1924
Elisabeth Heisenberg (left) conversing with Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, 1937
Replica of the German experimental nuclear reactor captured and dismantled at Haigerloch