Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1977 May 20.
Student work with Arnold Sommerfeld, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg; first paper with Heisenberg; paper on Hall Effect; history of early contributions to the electron theory of metals; extrapolation of second Hall paper by Lǒn Brillouin to three-dimensional case; errors in Pauli's work on anharmonic terms; Peter Debye's error; paper on free electrons. History of and contributions to theory of semiconductors: Felix Bloch, Yakov Ilyich Frenkel, Ralph H. Fowler, Nevill Mott; Max Born on non-linear electrodynamics; paper with Lev Landau on quantum electrodynamics; Walter Schottky. Search for superconductivity during 1930s. Knowledge of solid state physics in Germany and England beginning 1928; effects of World War II on development of solid state physics. Also prominently mentioned are: S. Chandrasekhar, Arthur Stanley Eddington; University of Cambridge.
British theoretical physicsist. Ph. D., Leipzig University (1929). Assistant to Wolfgang Pauli (1929-1932); researcher, Manchester University (1933-1935); Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge (1935-1937); professor of applied mathemataics, later mathematical physics, University of Birmingham (1937-1963); Wykeham professor of theoretical physics, University of Oxford (1963-1974).
Bloch, Felix, 1905-1983-
Born, Max, 1882-1970
Brillouin, Lǒn, 1889-1969.
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966-
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944.
Frenkel', IA. I. (IAkov Il'ich), 1894-1952.
Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968.
Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Schottky, Walter, 1886-1976.
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.
University of Cambridge.
Electrodynamics.
Free electron theory of metals.
Hall effect.
Quantum electrodynamics.
Semiconductors.
Solid state physics.
Solid state physics -- History
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
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Hoddeson, Lillian. interviewer.
Baym, Gordon interviewer.
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