Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Oral history interview with Rudolf E. Peierls, 1980.
Brief overview of childhood and education in Germany and Switzerland; Ph.D. with Wolfgang Pauli, 1931. Rockefeller Fellowship takes Peierls to Universit ̉di Roma, 1932-1933, and (after turning down a position at Universitt̃ Hamburg due to the political situation in Germany) to England in 1933. Talks about "silent acceptance of discriminination" at German universities; Erwin Schrd̲inger. From University of Cambridge to University of Manchester on a charity grant; comments on life there and contact with the British, other refugees, and refugee organizations. Professorship at University of Birmingham, from 1937; comments on teaching there. Enemy alien status and internment policy and evacuation of the Peierls' children to Canada in 1940. World War II work; Birmingham, England, then in the USA, from 1933; discussion of his relationshop with Klaus Fuchs; the use of the atomic bomb (J. Robert Oppenheimer); disarmament; integration; feelings about Britain.
Theoretical physics (quantum theory of solids of electromagnetic fields and of the nucleus; World War II work on atomic energy). Affiliations include: 1925, Berlin University as student of physics; 1926 transferred to University of Munich, Department of Theoretical Physics (A. Sommerfeld); 1928 transferred to Leipzig University, Department of Theoretical Physics (W. Heisenberg); and in 1929 to the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (W. Pauli). 1929, Ph. D., Leipzig. Fall 1929 to Fall 1932 'Assistant' to W. Pauli. Fall 1932 to Fall 1933 Rockefeller Fellowship held in Rome and Cambridge. 1933-1935 research in Manchester University supported by 'academic assistance' grant for German refugees. 1935-1937 Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge. 1937-1963 Professor of Applied Mathemataics, later Mathematical Physics, University of Birmingham. 1963-1974 Wykeham Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford. Died 1995.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Schrd̲inger, Erwin, 1887-1961
University of Birmingham.
University of Cambridge.
University of Manchester
Universit ̉di Roma.
Atomic bomb
Nuclear disarmament.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Refugees, Jewish.
Jewish scientists.
Solid state physics.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Interviews. aat
Physicists. lcsh
Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
AIP-ICOS
Imperial War Museum. Department of Documents. Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, England