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    Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE FRS (/ˈpaɪ.ərlz/; German: [ˈpaɪɐls]; 5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a major...
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    Peierls 1985, pp. 82–86. Peierls 1985, pp. 89–93. Peierls 1985, pp. 99–104. Peierls 1985, pp. 115–118. Peierls 1985, pp. 127–128. Peierls, Rudolf. "Frisch...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0852-6. OCLC 43615254. Peierls, Rudolf (2007). Sir Rudolf Peierls: Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence. Singapore:...
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  • A Peierls transition or Peierls distortion is a distortion of the periodic lattice of a one-dimensional crystal. Atomic positions oscillate, so that the...
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  • Peierls stress (or Peierls-Nabarro stress, also known as the lattice friction stress) is the force (first described by Rudolf Peierls and modified by...
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    The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. The department consists of multiple buildings and sub-departments...
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  • The Peierls substitution method, named after the original work by Rudolf Peierls is a widely employed approximation for describing tightly-bound electrons...
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    accommodation was scarce in wartime Birmingham, he stayed with Rudolf and Genia Peierls. Fuchs and Peierls did some important work together, which included a fundamental...
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  • Ising model (redirect from Peierls argument)
    }\geq c(\beta )>0.} This was first proven by Rudolf Peierls in 1936, using what is now called a Peierls argument. The Ising model on a two-dimensional...
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    Following the discovery of nuclear fission in uranium, scientists Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch at the University of Birmingham calculated, in March...
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