Background
PEIERLS, Rudolf was born on June 5, 1907 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Heinrich Peierls and Elisabeth (nee Weigert).
PEIERLS, Rudolf was born on June 5, 1907 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Heinrich Peierls and Elisabeth (nee Weigert).
Berlin, Munich and Leipzig Universities and Federation Institute of Technology, Zurich.
Assistant Federation Institute Technology, Zurich 1929. Rockefeller Fellow 1932. Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester University 1933-1935.
Research Assistant Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge University 1935-1937.
Professor, of Applied Mathematics, Birmingham University 1937^16. Work on atomic energy, Birmingham, New" York, Los Alamos 1940-1945.
Professor, of Mathematical Physics, Birmingham University 1946-1963. Wykeham Professor University of Oxford 1963-1974.
Participant-time Professor, of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle 1974-1977.
Foreign Honorary. Fellow, New College, Oxford 1963-1974, Emeritus Fellow" 1974-1980, Honorary Fellow since 1980. Honorary Fellow, Institute of Physics 1974.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Sussex, Chicago, Coimbra).
Council of Royal Society, London 1958.
American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1962. Royal Danish Academy 1980. French Physical Society 1979.
Yugoslav Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1983.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences 1988. Lisbon Academy, of Sciences.
Married Eugenia Kannegiser in 1931 (died in 1986).