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SIR RUDOLF (ERNST) PEIERLS (B.1907)
physicist
1925—74
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Report on the papers of
SIR RUDOLF (ERNST) PEIERLS, C.B.E., F.R.S.
(b.1907)
Compiled by:
Harriot Weiskittel
Jeunnine Alton
Deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1977
Collection of Sir Rudolf Peierls CSAC 52/6/77
Material added Sept. 1977.
Xerox copies of letters exchanged between Bohr and Peierls, now held in the Archives
of the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and made available through the
courtesy of the Archivist, Dr. Erik Riidinger:
C.30
Letter from Peierls 8.11.38 (in German)
Letter from Bohr re Ter Haar 19.3.47 see B.17, C.127 - C128
Letters exchanged May 1947 - Sept. 1948 re conference on “Problems
of Nuclear Physics” organised by Peierls and Oliphant in
Birmingham, 14 - 18 Sept. 1948; Bohr was invited but could
not attend.
in Copenhagen
2 letters from Peierls March, June 1949 re his visit to lecture
study with Peierls in Birmingham See C.188
Telegram from Bohr re his arrival in Oxford August 1949.
Letter from Peierls, and Bohr’s reply, June/July 1949_re J. Lindhard’s
(Total 17 pages)
SIR RUDOLF PEIERLS
COLLECTION COMPOSED ALMOST ENTIRELY OF
CORRESPONDENCE, WHICH HAS BEEN GROUPED
BY TOPIC,
CONTENTS HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED
AND ANALYSED BUT NOT CALENDARED.
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INDEX AND CROSS-REFERENCES.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The papers were received from Sir Rudolf Peierls in August 1974, after his
retirement from the Wykeham Chair of. Physics, Oxford University.
They refer there-
fore only to his activities up to 1974.
' The collection, which consists almost entirely of correspondence written and
received, covers all aspects of Peierls's career to 1974, including scientific research,
service on committees, advisory boards, etc., publications, appointments, overseas
visits and the like.
(See also the introductory note in Section C.
Scientific Corres-
pondence, on p. 15.)
Because of his own highly distinguished scientific work and his knowledge of
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the world of physics in one of its heroic periods, his invotvement with work on the atomic
bomb during the Second World War and with disarmament and the Pugwash movement
after it, Peierls has already attracted the attention of historians, and has given reminiscences
and accounts of episodes in his life, on tape, radio, television, in print and by corres~
pondence.
Several of these have been brought together in a sub-section of Section A,
items A.16 - A.28, and in D.22-D.25
Other items not in the present collection are
mentioned in Locations of other materia! below.
Peierls's retirement from the Wykeham
LOCATIONS OF OTHER MATERIAL
many personal and scientific reco!!ections of Peierls and his career.
Chair was marked by a Symposium held ir, Oxford 11-12 July 1974.
Correspondence
Retained by Peierls:
(Peierls's own memorandum about this material is included in A.1)
the organisers Dr. |. J.R. Aitchison and Dr. J.E. Paton, in A.25 - A.28, and include
with participants, and tapes of the talks cnd discussion, are contained, by courtesy of
graphical talk given at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
Domestic, persona! and family correspondence, some relating to his
early career.
Taped lectures, viz:
4 Pauli Lectures given at ZUrich;
(3 tapes) on 'Physics and Philosophy! given at Oxford;
Some private papers relating to his professional life.
All papers dealing with matters after 1974.
1.
2.
4 lectures
1 autobio-
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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell, Archives:
When these papers are declassified they will join those
Reports, correspondence and a diary relating to work during the Second
World War.
already declassified in the Public Record Office, London (see ltem A.21).
Some misce!laneous declassified reports appear in Item D.24 of the present
collection.
N.B.
on the feasibility and power of an atomic weapon have been published in:
The texts of the two versions of the 'Peierls-Frisch Memorandum!
_
Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-45, M.M. Gowing, Macmillan, 1964,
pp. 389-93.
Tizard, R. Clark, Methuen, 1965, pp.215-217 (fuller version).
Sources for History of Quantum Physics, University of California at Berkeley:
taped interview (see Item A.18).
Center for the History of Physics,. American Institute of Physics, New York:
taped interview (see Items A.1 and A. 20).
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS
Not all the material in the collection is yet available to readers.
Biographical and personal
Items marked with an asterisk (*) are restricted until 1 January 2000.
University and academic (at Birmingham
and Oxford)
CONTENTS OF THE HANDLIST
ltem
Index to principal correspondents
Conferences, symposia, invitation lectures,
visits
Committees, Societies, Consultancies
Scientific correspondence
Publications, broadcasts, reports
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B.1
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Awarded C.B.E. 1946, Knighthood 1968.
Royal Medal, Royal Society 1959.
Lorentz
Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences 1962.
Planck Medaille, Association of
German Physical Society 1963.
Guthrie Medal, Institute of Physics and Physical
Society 1968.
Hon. Fellow, Institute of Physics 1974.
Founding member of the Atomic Scientists Association and member of their
Council during its existence.
Participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and
World Affairs.
A member of Continuing Committee 1963 to 1974.
Chairman of
Continuing Committee 1970 to 1974.
Married in 1931.
One son, three daughiers.
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A.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL (A.1-=A.28)
Biographical and early career
Honours and awards
General personal correspondence
A.
1-A. 2
A, 3-A. 9
A.10-A.15
Autobiographical and historical reminiscences
A.16-A.28
Biographical notes, bibliography.
'Peierls's War Years' has been extracted from correspondence with
Charles Weiner and listed here for ease of reference (see also
A.20).
A narrative chronology entitled
Ear!y work and career:
Ms. Essay written at school on ‘Today's school from the
point of view of the pupil’ (in German).
Ms. notes for a seminar given in Munich (in German).
Offer from Professor Dr. W. Lenz of an assistantship in the
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg.
(Ms. letter in German.) Peierls provisionally accepted the
offer and then subsequently withdrew his acceptance when it
became clear that Hitler would come to power in Germany.
1923-24
1927
1933
and Sciences
Honorary Degrees:
Honorary Associate, College of Advanced Technology,
Birmingham (now University of Aston)
Guthrie Prize and Medal, The Institute of Physics and
the Physical Society °
A.3-A.9
Honours, awards and elections and letters of congratulation:
A.3
Certificates of honour and accompanying correspondence:
Fellowship of the Institute of Physics
0,6.
Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm, U.S.A.
Royal Medal, Royal Society
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts
by the Royal Society.
D.Sc. University of Liverpool
D.Sc. University of Birmingham
D.Sc. University of Edinburgh
Knighthood
Honorary Fellow, The Institute of Physics
Letters of congratulation on the award of the Royal Medal
Correspondence re arrangements for ceremonies and dinners,
letters of congratulation.
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A.6
A.7
A.8
Correspondence with Oxford and Birmingham Universities re offer 1961-63
and acceptance of the Wykeham Chair of Physics, Oxford.
Letters of congratulation on Peierls's election to the Wykeham
1962
Chair.
Award of the Lorentz Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Science and Letters: correspondence with the Academy re
arrangements for the presentation of the medal, text of Peierls's
reply at the ceremony on 24 November, printed report of the
meeting.
Correspondence re arrangements to give a seminar
in Leiden.
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1962
Letters of congratulation on the award of the Max Planck Medal.
(See also E.5 for correspondence re travel arrangements fo
Hamburg to receive the Medal.)
1963
A.10
Congratulatory letters written by Peierls and some replies from
1950-65
recipients (in date order).
A.11-A.12
2 files of miscellaneous personal correspondence: letters of
A.12 includes correspondence with Mark 2oxer
thanks, invitations, replies to appeals, requests for inter-
views, etc.
of The Times who drew a caricature of Peierls for New College
that is. also reproduced on the cover of the retirement
symposium volume.
(See also A.25.)
1943-63
1965-74
lectures, visits, etc.
Correspondence re various social invitations, valedictory
1950-74
‘Consumer Complainis': correspondence with airlines, snops
Correspondence re a gift for Madame S. Bonnevay, widow of
and organisations re poor service, invoicing errors and the
like.
matter .
Peierls received many requests from historians and biographers
for information regarding the development of quantum physics
and for his recollections and reminiscences of scientific
colleagues.
him and commented on draft manuscripts with care and fair-
ness.
This correspondence has been brought together with
other shorter material relating to the history of science and
presented in date order with a brief indication of the subject
Georges Bonnevay who. had worked in Birmingham: with
letter sent by Peierls to Bonnevay’s
Peierls, 1959-61:
colleagues, replies from contributors, letters of than!:: from
Mme. Bonnevay.
A.16-A. 24
Autobiographical and historical reminiscences.
He answered at length the many questions put to
1962-73
1964-65
(See also C.38.)
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A.16
Correspondence with W. Stanners re modern warfare and its
morality (lengthy letter from Peierls on this subject).
Correspondence with Alexander Sachs re his testimony before the
US Senate Committee on Atomic Energy.
‘| am not perturbed', statement by Peierls for publication in the
Sunday Express in refutation of its article of 29 October 1950,
entitled 'Perturbed Men! which attempted to represent the
attitude of foreign-born scientists as a result of the Pontecorvo
case.
(See also C.42, C.109, C.266, C.281.)
Correspondence with F.G. Gregory re cancellation of invitation
to Professor C.F. Powell to lecture in Germany. (See also C.250.)
1953
Ms. on 'The Lesson of the Fuchs case', 7pp. with Peierls's
recollections of Fuchs and his reflection on security and its
consequent social problem.
n.d., probably 1952.
1952
Correspondence with Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper re his statement
1955
in a review of a book or. the Oppenheimer case that Oppenheimer
had resided in Cambridge after the hearings.
Correspondence with Martin J. Klein re biography of Paul
Ehrenfest.
(See also C.92.)
'The bias of nature', articie by J. Bronowski sent for discussion
with Peierls.
1957
1957
Correspondence with H.V. Rowley re the history of the Atomic
Weapons Research Estab! ishment.
universities.
electron.
1958
1959
1960
1960
1959-62
A Prophet
in Two
Correspondence with Franz Bergel re apartheid in South African
Letter from Norwood kusseil Hanson re history of the positive
Correspondence with Melania Serbu re transverse waves in liquid
Correspondence with Mrs. Nancy Arms re her proposed biography
of Sir Francis Simon (published as
Countries).
(See also C.281-C.282.)
and her correspondence with Einstein 1928-48 (in German).
Includes correspondence with the Einstein estate and photocopy
of Einstein's letter to Miss Serbu of 9 January 1929.
randum,
physics' project (Peiei!s was interviewed by John Heilbron in
June 1963 for this history).
Letter from John Wheeler re the 'sources for the history of quantum
Correspondence with Waiter Schneir re the Los Alamos project,
_Klaus Fuchs and the Soviet nuclear weapons programme.
Correspondence with Ronald Clark te the Frisch~Peierls memo-
1961-63
1963
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Correspondence with Edward Lilly re the development of the
concept of dislocations.
pondence with Orowan, and E.11.)
(See also C.229, Peierls's corres-
Letter from Lansing Lamont re his book Day of Trinity and the
Los Alamos project;
Peierls's brief reply.
Correspondence with N. Kemmer re his obituary notice of
Hans Halban in The Times;
C.130.)
copy of the notice.
(See also
Correspondence with Margaret Gowing re research for her book
1961-63
Includes extracts from a June
Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939-45: extensive comments
and recollections by Peierls.
1963 memorandum to Mrs. Gowing by Sir Henry Dale re
Rritish scientists' attitudes to the use of the bombs against
the japanese.
Oppenheimer for the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
(See also D.9.)
Later correspondence re Peierls's article on
Correspondence with Malcolm D. Ferrier re Frisch-Peierls
memorandum.
for a high energy proton accelerator.
potentials.
A narrative chronology titled 'Peierls's
1967
1969
1969-73
Correspondence with A.N. Bryan-Brown re speech about
V. Weisskopf (the Latin oration on the occasion of his
honorary degree from Oxford where Bryan-Brown was Public
Orator).
(See also C.322 and C.330.)
Correspondence with J. Thewlis re ‘Peierls stress' and non-local
1967
Correspondence with R.S. Shankland re the Compton effect.
Correspondence with Edwin M. McMillan re Oliphant's proposal
(See also D.23.)
Correspondence with Charles Weiner re his tape-recorded oral
history interview with Peierls (August 1969), correction of
the transcript, etc.
This tape and transcript are deposited
in the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of
Physics, New York.
War Years' (1940-44), perhaps prepared by the Center as
background information for C. Weiner before the interview,
has been extracted and listed separately. (See Item A.1.)
Correspondence with Robert Reid re his book Tongues of
‘Conscience:
chapter, especially re the refugee scientists in Britain.
Peierls's comments on the manuscript of one
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Correspondence with Ronald Clark re his biography of Albert
Peierls's comments on that part of the manuscript
Einstein:
dealing with Einstein's reaction to Szilard's proposal in
Peierls's letter includes a
1939 for a nuclear weapon.
query of Clark's statement that fission was in some ways the
climax of half a century's work.’
1970
Correspondence with David H. Frisch re his paper ‘Scientists
and the Decision to Bomb Japan without a Demonstration',
enclosing copies of letters from Gen. Leslie Groves,
Vannevar Bush and James Conant who had commented on the
manuscript and on the events described therein.
Correspondence with Lorna Arnold of the UK Atomic Energy
1970
Authority re Peierls's wartime atomic energy papers.
these papers are declassified they will be deposited in the
Public Record Office, London.
(See also D.24.)
When
Letter to Kurt Mendelssohn answering historical questions re the
estimation of the critical size and the resulting work on—
isotope separation.
Mendelssohn's questions. )
(The papers do not include a copy of
é
Remarks on the pre-history of the discovery of slow neutron
_ capture by Maurice Goldhaber: photostatic copy of the pener.
(See also
Comments by Peierls on Charles P. Enz's article on Pauli.
Letter to L. Van Hove re Pauli and Heisenberg.
(See also C.138
and C.234-240.)
Correspondence with Richard J. Eden re Paul Dirac on occasion
Correspondence with A. Ince of Anglo Great Lakes Corporetion
of Dirac's 70th birthday;
reminiscences and recollections.
Ltd. who was attempting to locate a pre~print of a paper
'The production and properties of graphite for reactors' read
at the Atoms for Peace Conference in Geneva, 1955.
(See also C.240.)
Correspondence with Mrs. Robert Oppenheimer re proposed
biography of her husband: 4 typescript pages of Peieris's
reminiscences and recollections of Oppenheimer.
A. T7,: D.18). C.2274228, D.9.)
Muller of his interview with Peierls (June 1972) annotated,
amended and expanded by Peierls.
5 typescript pages of Peierls's
(See also C.82.)
Correspondence with B.H. Muller re Leo Szilard:
noies by
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Correspondence with Charles Weiner and Otto Nathan (trustee
1972-73
of the Einstein estate) re some Einstein-Warburg corres~
pondence.
Correspondence with W.E. Frahn re the 'Bohr, Peierls and
Placzek paper' (never published: see Items C.29-35).
The following files also contain correspondence and/or
NOTE:
writings of a special historical /autobiographical interest, although
this list is by no means complete:
C.218
C265
D.10
D.18
D.22-D.23
Bert
Correspondence with N.f. Mott re history of
metal-insulator transitions.
Correspondence with ?. Rosbaud re the German
‘scientific effort during the War.
Autobiographical note by Peierls for Modern
Men of Science.
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Obituary rictices of G.N. Watson, M. Born,
L. Rosenfeld;
Oppenheimer and his entry on J.R. Oppenheimer
for A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists.
Peierls's review of Lawrence and
Correspei.dence re various interviews, recordings
and televicion appearances made by Peierls.
A. 24
One folder of press-cuttings, especially re the dropping of the
c.1945-54
Typescript of talk by Peierls on"The History of
the 'Peierls-Nabarro' Force”.
Miscellaneous reviews anc! articles mentioned in Section D, see
especially D.12 and D.13.
Correspondence re ‘Journal of Jocular Physics’ published on the
occasion of Bor.r's 50th, 60th and 70th birthdays (especially
re Pejerls's contribution ‘The Atom that Bohr Built').
Correspondence re oiher verse and songs by Peierls.
Aitchison and J.E. Paton, Pergamon Press, 1977.
on the occasion of his retirement from the Wykeham Chair.
The programme of the symposium, held in Oxford 11-12 July
1974, included contributions by H. Bethe, O. Frisch, R. Berman,
S.F. Edwards, G.E. Brown, D. Thouless, R. Dalitz,
V’. Weisskopf and D.H. Wilkinson,
of the initial letter of invitation, replies (of acceptance and
of regret) with appreciations and reminiscences of Sir Rudolf
and Lady Peierls, pregreomme, menu for the dinner held in
Christ Church, group photograph, correspondence with some
of the SPEAKER
a volume
titled Rudolf Peierls and Theoretical Physics, ed.
A.25
One folder of material re the symposium held in Peierls's honour
atomic bomb and the Oppenheimer security case.
A.25-A. 28
Retirement Symposivin
The file contains a copy
The proceedings were published in
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One file of correspondence with Pergamon Press re the
publication of the volume.
A.27-A.28
Two tapes of the talks and discussions.
UNIVERSITY AND ACADEMIC (B.1-B.47)
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until 1 January 2000.
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General educational policy and
ideas
University examining
References
By LB
B.12 - B.14
B.15 - B.16
B.17 - B.23
B.24 ~ B.47
University of Birmingham.
Peierls was Professor of Applied
Mathematics (the title was changed to Mathematical
Physics in 1946) from 1937 to 1963.
_ pondenis in Items B.1-B.8 is selective.
The index to corres-
See also corres=
2 files in date order.
1948-63
1948-62
Correspondence with and re students:
placing in jobs or
1947-73
pondence with G.E. Brown (C.51-C.53), R.H. Dalitz (C.75)
and B.H. Flowers (C.102 and C.103) re administration and
teaching in the Department.
a
Correspondence with prospective research students and
colleagues from other universities re possibilities for
study, employment or sabbatical term in department.
Correspondence with visitors to the department (for meetings
with Peierls or other staff members, to deliver lectures or
colloquia, for examining).
administrative matters after Peierls's move to Oxford.
Misc. short correspondence re department: structure,
examining, possible industrial grants, equipment,
library purchases, scheduling of lectures, finances, etc.
research departments in other universities, publication of
papers, recruiting, grant applications.
order.
2 files in date
Skyrme, Eric Canel, re administration of the Department
of Mathematical Physics following Peierls's move to
Oxford.
Invitation to become an Honorary Member of the Birmingham
Senior Common Room. Correspondence re secretarial and
Correspondence with G.V. Chester, G.H. Burkhardt, T.H.R.
1946,
1951-65
1963-64
1969-74
1963-65
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Peierls's correspondence with the Vice-Chancellor, University
In addition to
of Birmingham, during his service there.
dealing with matters relative to university business, the
correspondence contains much information of a biographical
and personal nature, such as Peierls's war work and con~
suliancies, offers of university chairs, journeys abroad for
conferences, invitations to spend sabbatical leave jin
More strictly ‘Birmingham
institutes or universities abroad.
University' topics include matters relative fo the organisa-
tion, administration and finance of the department, Senate
and university committee meetings, arrangements for visits
by distinguished scientists, university housing and construction
projects, policy on retirement age for professors, social
invitations, 1954 Home Universities Conference (see also
ltem E.1) and the like.
with Sir Charles Grant Robertson (one letter only).
with Sir Raymond Priestley.
with Sir Robert Aitken (see also Item A.6, a file of
correspondence re Peierls's election to the Wykeham
Chair and his subsequent move to Oxford).
Correspondence re a proposed research institute in matho-
3?
1939-52
1952-58
1959-61
1963-74
1963-74
B.12-B.14
Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford.
Peierls was the
Correspondence with and regarding students:
students'
Wykeham Professor of Physics from 1963 until his retire~
ment in 1974;
to his election to the Chair.
indexed.
see also Item A.6, a file of papers relative
Correspondents are selectively
matical physics to be linked with the Birmingham department:
draft proposals by Peierls, correspondence re applicarions
for grants from charitable foundations.
queries re admission to department, placing of siudcnts
for research, topics for research.
.M.G. Adam, and sent to Peierls for information. )
Peierls;
invitations extended to colleagues abroad for sabiatical
leave in Oxford department.
pondence arising.
on 'The Education of Astonomers', a contribution to a
discussion meeting on the topic to be held at the Royal
Astronomical Society, prepared by D.E. Blackwell and
Requests to visit or work in department and for meetings with
letters of thanks following visits;
Peierts’s
Some scientific corres-
(File includes typescript of a paper
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1963-74
Correspondence re departmental business: examining, super~
Invitations and lists of guests for
vision, structure, publications, some correspondence
re university matters.
annual Michaelmas Term parties in the department.
Correspondence with Registrar re leaves of absence,
departmental allowances.
pondence between Peierls and his secretary during his
sabbatical leave from the department in 1967, and Items
D, ter Haar,
C.127 and C.128, his correspondence with
much of which pertains to departmental business. )
(See also Item E.11, corres-
B.15-B.16
Correspondence re various aspects of university and academic
Peierls's advice was frequently sought on such matters;
policy.
his careful and thoughtful replies, often at some length, docu-
ment his interest and concern.
The correspondence is in date order, and a brief note of the
questions to which Peierls was responding is given below.
with J.C. Gunn re proposal to form Chair of Applied
Mathematics at Glasgow.
with R.A. Rankin re Scottish secondary school education.
with Th. V. Kaneliopoulos re establishment of School for
Physics, Athens.
(See also C.164.)
(See also Item F.20.)
with A.G. Watts re interim year between school and
university.
with Sir Chrisiapher Cox re brain drain in India.
with Sir Harcie Massey re overseas students’ fees.
with Officers of Oxford Society for Social Responsibility
in Science re their policies.
lengthy letters to Whitehall (and correspondence with Sir
Robert Aitken) re the government's financial policy
towards universities.
policy and philosophy:
with Birmingham University Registry re history of inaugural
lectures.
with Association of University Teachers re 'direct action'
over salaries.
NOTE: The following files in Section C may be referred to
for further correspondence re various aspects of academic
with Peter Hancock re tape recording of material on
quantum theory for use in schools.
with J.F. Alien re Science Research Council selectivity.
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1951-73
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re electoral boards.
Reports on dissertations.
pre-1963
Fife of papers relative to examining at Bradford Institute
1963-66
of Technology (Peierls acted as external examiner to the
mathematics course for the Diploma in Technology):
correspondence re meetings, setting of examinations,
assessments of questions and of marking, recommendations
for awards.
See also C.135 (D.R. Hartree),
B.23
Not used.
1946-51
1959-66
1963-71
for Peierls's suggestions and advice,
Requests from university officials and heads of departments
1947-71
Commonwealth Scholarships (Peierls acted as a member of
Correspondence with W.H. McCrea (1951) and H.S.W.
Massey (1946-49) re their external examining for the
Birmingham department.
C.168 (N. Kemmer) and C.254 (M.H.L. Pryce) for
further correspondence on the same topic.
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References and testimonials.
These files are restricted and
the correspondence is not indexed.
betically by name of candidate:
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
B.42-B.47
Suggestions for appointments, comparisons of several
candidates.
6 folders in date order:
*B.42
*B.43
*B.44
*B.45
*B.46
* B47
1950-55
1956-59.
1960-63
1963-64
1965-68
1970-74
C.
-SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE (C.1-C.359)
The correspondence in this section is with individuals.
Other letters relating
to committees, publications, university matters, etc. will be found in the relevant
sections, and a complete index to the correspondence appears on pp. 56-71.
When the correspondence is extensive, and/or the correspondent is of note, the
In cases
Peierls has drafted or approved the descriptive entries for these principal
is of special personal or scientific interest.
is conducted.
material is lodged in a personal file or files, e.g., Niels Bohr, C.29-C.26.
where only one or two letters were exchanged with a correspondent on sore point of
scientific interest, these have been grouped together in a miscellaneous file, e.g.,
C.1, C.9, which occasionally break strict alphabetical sequence.
With such ex-
ceptions, the material is presented alphabetically, dated, and with ar indication of
An indication of the content !s given only
the language(s) in which it
when it
Not all the letters survive, and
a note has been made in the list below in cases where only Peierls's carbon: copy remains
(the names of these correspondents do not appeor in the general index).
Cross-references
are given to principal individuals, research or activities mentioned eisewhere in the
collection, but when the correspondence deals with numerous projecis and personnel
within a department it has not been practicable to cross-reference them ail.
The correspondence deals mainly with scientific matters, though it contains many
personal and friendly references.
Of particular interest are the long exchenges of letters
with Hans Bethe (C.15-C.19), Niels Bohr (C.29-C.36), Nevill Mctt (C.213-C.218) and
Wolfgang Pauli (C.234-C.240), as well as the shorter correspondence with Max Born,
R.H. Fowler, Werner Heisenberg, Lev Landau, George Placzek, Robert Oppenheimer and
others.
correspondents or collaborators of his earlier years.
general note on conditions of access on Tees
In addition, the correspondence shows the activity and internotional reputation
His concern for the
of Peierls's departments at Birmingham and, after 1963, at Oxford.
selection, scientific progress, pastoral care and subsequent coreer of iis research students
is constantly in evidence.
Some of the correspondence is currently subject to restricted access;
see the
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/5/77
re
Akobjanoff, Lev
Allcock, G.
Allibone, Thomas Edward
Apostolakis, A.
Austern,; Norman
J.
R.
(Peierls's carbon only)
Aitchison, lan Johnstone Rhind
Atkinson, D.
Aughtie, Frank
Baldin, Aleksander Mikhajlovich
Barrett, Roger
Berggren, Tore
Bardeen, John
Barker, Fred C.
(Peierls's carbon only)
H.
Barschall, H.
Batchelor,
Bates, David Robert
Baynes, Tom Hamilton
George Keith
1965
1974
1963-64
1961
1959-62
1959-63
1970
1961, 1971
1957-58
1971-72
1970
1951, 1956-57
1947-50
1949
1968
1949
1950
J.
(See also C.274)
Bell, John Stewari
Berg, W.
Fy
1958-61
1951-58
1936, 1947
Bég, Mirza Abdui Bagi
1951, 1961
1949
Beck, Guido
Belinfante, F.
(1936 correspondence in German)
Berliner, Arnold
Berthelot, A.
-
1926-28 and became friends.
Manchester in 1933-34, and in Los Alamos in 1944-45.
The correspondence is about physics, mutual visits and
invitations to colleagues,
and about personal affairs.
Early letters are in German, and all are full of obscure
references to private jokes, to quotations from anecdotes,
etc.
See also C.197 for correspondence re Bethe's 60th birthday
Bethe and Peieris were fellow students in Munich in
The sequence of letters is not complete.
“1932
1947
1927-62
volume.
Cite
Cr16
Ce
C19
(in German)
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
They were together in
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“20
;
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir
;
‘
C.2i-C93
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
17
1937, 1946,
1952
1930-54
Cc2i
Blackett's papers sent to Peierls for his com-
1930-38. Correspondence re scientific work: 'Pauli's
suggestion about
"neutrons"! (now called 'neutrinos')
(1930-31);
ments (1936-37).
calculations (in Peierls's hand) on ‘Blackett paper I'
and one page (in Blackett's hand) of notes on 'scale
drawing of chamber with counters’.
File includes a set of notes and
1946. Correspondence re Atomic Scientists' Association,
especially relating to proposed statement to be issued by
the Council on the international control of atomic weapons.
(See also C.54, F.4-F.8.)
Correspondence re Atomic Scientists' Association
1947-54.
conferences; re scientific matters;
re Blackett's book
Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy.
(See also F.4-F.8.)
Blackman, Moses
Blatt, John
Bleaney, Brebis
(Peierls's carbon only)
1938-39
1953
1958
Bloch, Claude
(Peierls's carbon only)
1953-57,
1963-70
1950-52,
1962
1931, 1948-54
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Blokhintzev, D.
I.
— (in Russian)
Bloch, Felix
(1931 letter in German)
Peierls visited Bohr in Copenhagen repeatedly for con-
Blin-Stoyle, Roger John
1953-54
1955-57, 1963-70
C2
“C20
After the war, there
of his time in Copenhagen) discussed nuclear reactions and
reached conclusions which were to be embodied in a joint paper.
Drafts of portions of this paper were discussed in Copenhagen,
on visits by Placzek to Birmingham, and by letter.
ferences or just for consultation.
in 1931.
that L.D. Landau was having, and about arrangements for
mutual visits.
No satisfactory version had been arrived at when the war
Various drafts had, however,
interrupted communications.
been shown or given to many other physicists so that the 'paper'
was frequenily cited - probably the most frequently cited un-
published, indeed unwritten, paper.
About 1938 Bohr, Peierls and Placzek (who then spent much
The letters are about physics, about the troubles
The first visit was probably
1946-47
1936-60
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were further attempts to agree on a text, but they were finally
abandoned.
See also A.22, C.9, C.46, C.245 for other references to
or correspondence about this paper.
Correspondence after 1946 (C.32-C.36) is addressed to,
This refers to Bohr's nom de guerre
and signed by, ‘Uncle Nick’.
Nicholas Baker, under which he travelled and worked during the
His older colleagues and friends adopted the
Second World War.
Bohr's
/name permanently in their subsequent dealings with him.
son, Aage, who escaped to England with him in the war, was known
as James Baker, or Jim.
1936-37
(in German).
1938
1939
1946-48
(some of Peierls's letters are in German).
(includes an abstract of address by Bohr at the
Physical Society Conference in Cambridge in
the summer of 1946 on 'Problems of Elementary
Particle Physics').
1954-56, 1960
none
29 pp.
5S pp.
6 pp.
2 pp.
1949-50
(includes typescript of Bohr's 'Tenturive Comments
on Atomic and Nucleor Constitution, i5-8-49').
(See also C.245, which contains another draft. )
Various typescript drafts of the Bohr~Peierls-Placzek paper;
are dated:
typescript (top copy)
carbon of typescript
typescript (top copy) titled 'Evaluation of Dispersion Formula
carbon of typescript
1948-51
correspondence re various memoirs of Bohr;
see also C.68.
Bohr, Aage
Bowen, Richard A.
Boya, Luis J.
1958
1960
1970-73
1959-60
1952-61
Bonnevay, Georges (see also A.15)
Boon, Michael H.
Bopp, Fritz
(some letters in German)
1962-63, 1969
(Peierls's carbon only)
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C.41-C.42
Born, Max
(early letters in German)
(see also C.140, D.12, D.14, D.18)
C.41
C.42
1936, 1937, 1946, 1948-49
1950-54, 1963, 1967
C.43
Bragg, William Lawrence
Peierls spent the academic years 1933-35 in Bragg's
department at Manchester.
relates to problems in which both had then been interested.
The rest are about an invitation to Fermi (1947) (unsuccessful )
and about participants to a Solvay Conference in 1953.
One exchange of letters in 1937
Brailsford, Alan David
Brandow, Baird H.
Breit, Gregory
Brodie, Laird C.
Brueckner, Keith A.
(see cilso Takeo, M., C.297)
Burton, W.
Keith
19
1936-37
1946-54,
1963, 1967
1951-59, 1971
1957-59
1964, 1968
1967
1952, 1954,
1957
1952
Brenner, Sheila
(see also C.51)
1951-59
C.47
*C.A7
1951-54
1955-59
C.48
C.51-C.53
C51
1950-56
1950-51
1949-74
"CO .Ay
G90
1936, 1945,
1953
1949-54
1955-59
1960-74
Brode, Robert B.
Bretscher, Egon
Cvs
Segoe
Brentano, John C.
M.
(1936 letter is
in German)
Brown, Gerald Edward
1948-60
Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley (includes correspondence re
Atomic Scientists' Association, of which Burhop served
as secretary, and its publicity, press statements, officers
(see also C.22-C.23, F.4-F.8).
(includes typescripts of 2 papers by Brown and collaborators,
and typescript of obituary notice of H.W.B. Skinner by
Peierls for publication in ‘Nuclear Physics’).
Burke, Joseph Terence Anthony
Butler, Stuort T.
1946-51, 1965
1973
1960-63
Byers, Nina
;
1956-63
Casimir, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard (1945 letter in German)
1945, 1950,
Cassels, James Macdonald (see also C.66)
Chadwick, James (see also C.65)
C.61-C.62
Chan, Hong-Mo (includes drafts of papers)
Tat
+62
1955-60
1961-65
Ces
Chisholm, J.
S.
Roy
C.64
C765
Chrétien, Max
(1950-52 correspondence in German)
Clementel, Ezio
C.66-68
Cockcroft, John Douglas
1938 (Peierls's carbon only), 1939-54 (see also C.59)
1955
1956-66 (see also C.36)
1971
1952-53
1935, 1948-49,
195]
1955-65
1964-67
1950-57
1949, 1953-55
1939-66
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CSAC 52/6/77
BS
oe,
(00
C.59
C.60
a
Coleman, Kenneth Ray
Coulson, Charles Alfred
C.68 includes a copy of draft notes by Peierls for a panel
talk at MIT on ‘The Future of The Physical Sciences' 1961
(Cockcroft was also a member of the panel).
C.67 includes programme and papers relating to
‘Symposium upon Machines for High Energy Physics in U.K.
Harwell, 13 May 1955, and copies of letters from British
physicists in response to enquiry by UKAEA re high energy
particle accelerator programme, 1955.
1947, 1951
Cade, R.
di Castro, Carlo
Champion, Frank Clive
Chapman, Sydney
Corben, Herbert S.
Cottrell, Alan Howard
Delves, L.
wictkyip.
Domb, Cyril
M.
Ga
1973
1949 —
1965
1947
1940
1953
n.d.
1946-47, 1950
1948-52, 1964,
;
1960, 1966
1954
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
C.73
C.74
C.70
Dabrowski, Janusz Karol
Dale, W.
M.
Dolitz, Richard Henry
C.75
*C.75
1949-54
1955-58
21
1956-63
1946
1949-58
da Providencia,
he
(see C. 253)
C.76
Davison, Boris (1947 letter is Peierls's carbon only) includes
1947, 1950-61
correspondence with Harwell ond with Chalk River and
correspondence with colleagues after Davison's sudden
death in 1961, obituary of Davison by W.H. Watson as
published in Nature;
see also C.66.
de Dominicis, C.
T.
(see C.83)
C.77
Dee, Anne
C.77
"ees,
1954
1955-58
1954-55
C.78
Dee, Philip Ivor (all letters except that of 1948 are
Peierls's carbons only)
1938-39, 1948-
52
de Haos, W.
le
(see C.126)
1950-58
Deutsch, Martin
Diamond, Witold B.
1950
1939, 1948-52
Cs?
Clay
1948-49
1965-68
Dingle, Robert Balson
C.8]
C.82
C.83
di Castro, C.
(see C.71)
de Dominicis, Cyrano Tullio
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (see also A. 22)
1952-71
Eden, Richard John
Eliezer, C.
Sillot;: JaiceR
Evans, Robley, D.
1956
1947-48, 195]
1957
1949
Easthope, Colin E.
(Peierls's first research student in
1955-56, 1960-63, 1973-74
C.89-C.90
Edwords, Samuel Frederick
Dyson, Freeman John
1953-61
1946-74
C.87
C.88
1936-38, 1942,
1952
C.84-C.85
C.84
*C,85
C.86
Cambridge)
Edmonds, Alan R.
C.89
1952-54
10556..
1946-52
Jayam
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i
is oe
Ehrenberg, W.
Ehrenfest, Paul
(in German)
22
1946, 1947
1932
Ehrenfest had published a paper ‘Some queries concerning the
The file contains a letter
foundations of quantum mechanics'.
from Peierls giving his views as to the answers, a reply from
Ehrenfest asking that some of the answers be expanded and sug-
gesting that Peierls publish his views.
A further letter from
He did not
Peierls discussed the points Ehrenfest had raised.
publish anything on this because he found that Pauli had pub-
lished a reply to Ehrenfest which largely overlapped with his
own ideas.
(See also A.16.)
Elton, Lewis Richard Benjamin
Emery, Victor J.
Evans, James Anthony
Ewald, Paul Peter
Fankuchen, Isidor
Feenberg, E.
Follett, David Henry
Fowler, G.
oN.
(Peierls's carbon only)
(Peierls's carbon only)
Fairbairn, Walter M.
1955, 1965,
1972
1960-63
1957-62
1946-49, 1958
1939
1939
1947
1952, 1964
1950-60, 1965
C.98
*598
Ferretti, Bruno
Flowers, Brian Hilton
(see also C.264)
99
. 100
101
1936, 1948
1946-54
1937, 1958-62
1950-66, 1968
1950-54
1955-56, 1968
Fierz, M.
(Fierz's letters are in German)
1950-54
1955-60, 1965
Fermi, Enrico
(1936 letter is in ltalian)
.102-C.103
C.102
*C.103
1951, 1957
Franz, Walter
Fremlin, John H.
French, A.
Friedel, J.
Fulbright, H.
1950
1968, 1971
1954
1965
1951
Fowler, Ralph Howerd (see also C.146)
Frank, Frederick Charles
(1957 letter is Peierls's carbon
P._—(Peierls's carbon only)
Fock, V.
(in German)
C.104
C.106
C.106
1930-31
1937-38
W.
only)
R.E. Peierts
CSAC 52/6/77
‘C.108
,
C.409
© .hIO
ieee
C.H3
C.114
Frenkel, J.
(includes copy of telegram to R.H. Fowler
1946-47
23
from Frenkel - n.d.)
Frisch, Otto Robert
Fr8hlich, Herbert
(1937 letter is
in German); one letter
1971 re book in honour of Frdhlich.
C.110
*C.110
1937, 1947-53
1955-62, 1971
Fuchs, Klaus
(1947 letters are Peierls's carbons only;
correspondence is with Fuch's friends and advisers)
also A.16 and C.66).
1950
(see
W.
Gallop, J.
Gentner, Wolfgang
George, E.
Gifford, R..
P.
D.
(in German)
Gabor, Dennis
Gamow, George
(Russian and English)
1947-54, 1962
1937, 1947-62,
1971
1947, 1950
1949
1948, 195]
1951
1959
1941-51
1946-47, 1952
1945-56
C.1i5-C.116
Gardner, John William
C.145
1945-52
*CeL6
1955-56
Garrido, Luis Maria
(Peierls's carbon only)
Giz
*C.118
Gi hey
1968-74
1956-57
Goodeve, Charles Frederick
Geoghegan, Gerald R.
H.
Gilbert, Nicole
(see Vinh-Mau, C.311)
1948
1951
1962
1949, 1954
1972
Glueckauf, Eugen
Goldsack, Stephen J.
Carter, ©, <<" 2.
Goward, FF.
K.
Grossman, Shlomit
1967
J.
de Haas, W.
Hall, Henry Edgar
Hamza, A.
M.
Hardy, Robert J.
GUnther, Marian (some letters in German)
1949-50, 1952
1959
1949-50, 1952,
1959
1956-63, 1968
1953-58, 1962
Gustafson, Torsten
Gutmann, Felix
Green, Anthony M.
Greenwood, Derek A.
1936
1952
1935
1971
1972
C123
“Cig
1947, 1949-53
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C.127-C.128
ter Haar, Dirk
27
*Cal 26
1949-55
1963, 1967
Pe et 29
Haering, Rudolph R.
1956-58, 1962,
1964
Halban, Hans von
(see also A.18)
:
1947-51
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
Hamilton, James
Harper, Philip George
Cig
*C.133
1949-54
1955-60, 1974
134
Horrison, Michael J.
o135-C.136
Hartree, Douglas Rayner
(see also C.47 and C.51)
. 130
13]
132
133°
Chae
C.136
«137
1963
*
1954°1956
1949-57, 1959-
60,
O74.
1974
1959-62
1947-57
1947
1956
1946
1934
1948, 1954
1947-51
1952-57
W.
Haslett, A.
Hillman, P.
Hogben, Lancelot
Houtermans, Mrs.
Howlett, Jack
German)
(in German)
1930, 1931 (?),
1935, 1948
The file also includes correspondence in 1948 during
Heisenberg, Werner (all ef Heisenberg's letters are in
the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field ther: developed
by Heisenberg and Pauli.
Heisenberg to Pauli, which were passed fo Peierls for comment.
This includes two letters from
Some early letters in German about physics - mostly about
W.
Heisenberg's visit to England, about a visit to Birmingham which
was arranged but had to be cancelled.
11 February 1948 there is a reference to a memorandum by
Peierls 'Our relations with the German scientists’ which was
enclosed, but there is no copy of this
Heitler, Walter Heinrich
(1937 letters are in German)
Hepner, Wolfgang A.
(includes carbons of Peierls's letters
1940-42, 1946-
47, 1950
1959-67
See also A.21, C.234 and D.14.
Born, 1940)
Herbut, Fedor
Herivel, J.
In Peierls's letter of
(see also D.12)
1937, 1946-51
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C.143
C.144
C.145
C.146
Hodgson, Peter E.
Hofstadter, Robert
Horton, George K.
Hoyle, Fred
Hoyle started research work under Peierls shortly before
The
Peierls moved from Cambridge to Birmingham in 1937.
record does not show whether Peierls was his official Ph.D.
supervisor after the move, but he worked under Peierls's
guidance, hitch-hiking to Birmingham when necessary for
consultation.
There is correspondence from that period,
and also later in connection with a joint paper, and, in
1947, comments on a paper by C. Domb.
The sequence
is not complete and most of Hoyle's letters are not dated.
See also C.105.
Hu, Ning
Hughes, D.
Humphreys, C.
Hund, F.
J.
;
Huby, R.
(in German)
(see also E.10)
1958-59
1953-55
1953, 1959
1936-39, 1947
_ 1947-48
1954
1968
1960
1948-52, 1970
1937-40
1946-49
1948, 1950
Meth. a...
ae
Hulthén, Lamek
Husain, Delawor
Hussain, Zoahur
David
Sn
Hume-=Rothery, William
Humblet, J.
(in French)
1938, 1942-43,
1947, 1958,
1967
1961, 1969-72
Jackson, J.
Jor, TS.
Jastrow, Robert
Jeffreys, Bertha
Johnson, Derek F.
Jordan, P.
1949
1962
1949
1950
1951
1935
Jahn, Hermann Arthur
Jenkins, Richord C.
—L.
1959-64, 1966
1966, 1970-71
1946-53, 1956
1953-59, 1964
Jackson, Daphne F.
Jonah, Daniel A.
(in German)
1969
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
C.160
“C3161
C.162
Jones, Harry
(1955 letter is Peierls's carbon only)
Jones, Reginald Victor
Kahn, Herman
Kapitza, Peter Leonidovich
Kastler, A.
Kabir, Prabahan Kemal
Kanellopoulos, Themistoklis V.
(see also B.15)
Konur os."
es
Kerley, Gerald I.
Kerr, Alexander O.
Rete 05.05
Fic
A.
C.167-C.168
Kemmer, Nicholas
C.167
"C168
1938 (in German, Peierls's carbon only), 1946, 1948-54
1955-58, 1960-62 (much correspondence re Peierls's
1946, 1955
1948, 1955
1961
1971
1974
1956-63
1953-56, 1959-
60
1937-39, 1946
1973...
1969
1965
1938-62
external examining for Edinburgh and Kemmer's
external examining for Birmingham).
1949-52, 1955-
Kim, Young-Nok
Klein, Oskar
Kopal, Zdenék
1950
1947
1939
Klemens, Paul G.
1953-58, 1968,
1972
1949, 1951
King es
Tt.
Klemperer, O.
Kober, H.
57, 1974
(1951 letter is a copy of a letter by
Kramers to the Director-General of UNESCO; other
correspondence is re a collection of Kramers's letters
and a proposed memorial volume).
Krons; Ra:
Krishnan, Kariamanikkam Srinivasa
Kronig, R.
deL.
1966
1946, 1953
1946-47
Kynch, George James
(see also C.266)
Kuper, Charles Goethe
1946-54
1955-56
Kramers, H.
A.
1949-52
a5, 1957
1951-55
-L.
“Krook, Max
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C173
Lamb, Willis Eugene
Lejéek, Lubor
van Leuven, Piet
Landau, Lev Davydovich (in German, Russian and English)
Landau was in ZUrich for a short time in the autumn of
On each occasion
1929, and again in the winter of 1930-31.
Landau and Peierls wrote a joint paper.
pondence about the first of these.
Some later casual corres-
‘pondence concerns in part possible visits, points arising from
a conference in Moscow in 1956, about translation of books,
a proposed honorary degree for Landau in Birmingham.
The
1968 correspondence is about Landau's death and the obituary
notices in journals.
There is corres-
See also C.30 and C. 265
Lane, Anthony Milner
Langer, James S.
Lascoux, Jean
Le Couteur, K.
1956, n.d.
1969
1972, 1974
1930, 1950,
1955-58, 1968
1951-58
1955-58
1955-59
1952-59
Leon, Melvin
Levinger, Joseph S.
1961-63
1956-61, 1971-
72
Lindhord, Jens
~
Lieb, Elliott Hershel
C.187
re shy
1953-54
1955-62
1952, 1966
1957, 1961
1966
Lidiard, Alan Brian
Lipkin, Harry J.
Lippmann, Bernard A,
1954-55
Lijolje,
K.
Luders, G.
Luscombe, J.
Lyttleton, Raymond Arthur
McIntyre, M.
McQuillan, Alan D.
E.
MacDonald, David Keith Chalmers
McLeon, Thomas Pearson
1963
1965
1974
1958
1948
1974
1971
1948-50, 1955,
1959-60
(Peierls's carbon only)
1953-62
1949-50
(in German)
Lucas, S.
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
C.194
C.195
28
McManus, Hugh ‘(McManus was Peierls's first research
student at Birmingham University).
1939-40, 1945-
56, 1960
Mandelstam, Stanley
C.l9
*C 195
1953-54
1955-63
March, Norman Henry
Marshak, Robert E.
(includes correspondence re 60th
birthday volume for Hans Bethe 1965-66).
Marshall, Walter Charles
eee
eC, 18
1952-54
1955-57, 1961-63
1959-63
1956-66
1952-57, 1961-
63
Martin, Paul C.
1955-60
(Peierls's carbon onty)
Mason, Ronald
Mazo, Robert M.
Menzel, Donald H.
Meyerhof, W.
E.
Mitra, Asoke N.
Moszkowski, Steven A.
Motz, Hans
Mummery, Peter W.
1974
1967
1949-50
1947
1960-61
1957
1963
1957
1961-63
1951-57, 1962
C.201
*C.201
Mehta, Naren
1939, 1948,
1955
Meitner, Lise
(iri German and English)
Meksyn, D.
(includes letter on his work on infinite integrals
from Meksyn to R.H. Fowler, which Fowler passed to Peierls).
Matthews, Paul Taunton
1951-54
1955-57. 1962
1973-74
1939, 1947, 1952
1956, 1970
Maller, C.
(1939 correspondence in German)
Mendelssohn, Kurt
(in German)
Mondragén, Alfonso B.
1939, 1947,
1952, 1956,
1970
1936
1936
1968
Mercier, Raymond P.
1957-62, 1967~
68
1950, 1959,
Moon, Philip Burton
Mermin, N.
David
1961-62, 1968
C.208
=C.208
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
€.211
Moorhouse, Robert Gordon
Croll
*C.211
3949-82
1953-55
Cy 2tZ
Moshinsky, Marcos
C.213-C.218
Mott, Nevill Francis
1956-57
1936-74
C.213
1936-39 (includes typescript by Mott of "Discussion of the
paper by de Boer and Verwey' and ms. notes by
Peierls on the same topic).
1946-50 (includes copy of 15 March 1946 letter from Niels
Bohr to Mott re new journal for physics;
correspondence in this file concerns this proposal).
much of the
1951-53 (much of the correspondence concerns the refereeing
and communication of papers for the Philosophical
Magazine and Journal of Science).
1953-57
1957-61, 1963
1964-74 (includes correspondence re proposed summer schools
for solid state research students in British universities).
In addition to scientific correspondence, there are also many
letters dealing with the affairs of the Atomic Scientists' Associa-
tion. This correspondence should be read in conjunction with that
found in Item F.8.
1950-55, 1960-
72.221-C.222
C.224
1950-52
1962-63, 1973
1946-73
1960-63
Moyal, Js
Be
C.Z21
tC. 222
*
1946-53
1955-73
Oral?
“CC UEeO
°C .2e
_
Nakano, Husio
Murphy, George Eugene
Nabarro, Frank Reginald Nunes
See also Items A.19, A.22, D.9, D.18.
1946-55, 1961 (includes correspondence re arrangements
for Peierls's sabbatical term at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton, 1952).
Oliphant, Mark
Oneda, S.
Owen, David
Newton, Roger G.
Novakovié, Ljubisav
Nussbaum, R.
H.
1971 (correspondence re memorial to Oppenheimer).
C.227-C.228
Oppenheimer, J.
1959-60
1972
1954
él
1973
1957
1965
Noyes, Henry Pierre
;
1946-55, 1961,
1971
Cn fae.
Robert
R.E. Peierls
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Gi229
Orowan, Egon
(includes typescript of patent application
on ‘aiming device, especially for anti-aircraft
artillery’ 1941 and of 3 pp. draft titled 'The origin
and spacing of slip bands').
See also A.18 and E.11.
Pais, Abraham
Paneth, Heinz Rudolf (now H.R. Post)
: Papapetrou, A.
Peshkin, Murray
Peters, Bernard
Pike ES
Pincherle, Leo
Plaskett, Harry Hemley
(Peierls's carbon only)
233
Paton, Jack Ellis
»234-C.240
Pauli, Wolfgang (German and English)
Peierls was Pauli's student in the summer of 1929, and
1941, 1946,
1950, 1961
1968
1947-53
1949-51, 1959
1951,
1960
1949
1966
1946, 1948
1951
1959-62
1930-57
assistant from October 1929 to summer of 1932.
Early
letters are mostly about physics during Pauli's absences
from Zurich.
Later, exchange of letters about physics
(and occasionally about visits) continued.
Ai22,.G.265, Com22, ERG:
See also
1940);
see also C.138).
(January-March)
See also D.10.
1938
1949
1952
1953
1955-57
(March-December)
(February-July)
(August, one letter - October)
1930-37 (includes postcard from Heisenberg to Pauli (Feb.
54
Correspondence re Peierls's obituary notice of Pauli in
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal
Seciety,
Vol.5, 1959 and his contribution to the Pauli Memorial
Volume.
(includes typescript draft of Bohr-Peierls-Placzek
paper).
See also C.29-C.36, F.4-F.8, D.12,
C.241° 1946-47, 1950, 1952
SC rh
1 96t
Placzek, George (1937-39 letters are in German)
Perrin, Michael Willcox (see also F.4-F.8)
1946-47, 1950,
1952, 1961
Pinl, Max (1947 letter in German)
1946-47, 1950,
1954-55
1947, 1949
C.241
Penney, William George
Perks, Maurice A,
1953-55
1959-60
1937-39, 1947-
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
C.246
Podolanski, J.
Ponts Mick.
Pe, ta,
Price, Peter J.
Pursey, D.
Vs
= L.
Polanyi, Michael (includes a carbon of Polanyi's paper
‘Electric dipoles and electrically induced resonance'
sent to Peierls for comment).
See also F.4-F.8.
Polkinghorne, John Charlton
Popper, Karl Raimund (one letter oniy)
Powell, Cecil Frank
(see also A.16)
C.250
*C.250
1948-54
1959, 1964, 1968
Preston, Melvin A,
C.251
*C.25'.:
1949-54
1959-58, 1963
Proca, Alexandre (see also C.267)
da Providencia, J.
31
1952
1949
1959
1951-52
1952, 1958
1941, 1946,
1954-56
1954-55
1959
1948-54, 1959,
1964, 1968
1946-58, 1963
1947-48, 1950-
53, 1955
1962-66
1937-39, 1948--
55, 1961,
1963
1955
1948-60
1952-54, 1958-
Radicati, Luigi A.
Quimby, S.L.
Radcliffe, John M.
Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorney
=1948-54
(C.256
"C. 256... 1965-60
59
Ramsey, Norman Foster
Rasetti, Franco
Raven, J.
Rohrlich, Fritz
1951, 1955
1935
1957
1952
1954
neds
_ Rosenberg, Harold M.
Ross, Alan Strode Camphell
1951-55
1951
1967-68
Ravenhall, David Geoffrey
(in German)
M.
1947-62
1951, 1953-54
Rayski, Jerzy
Redmond, Peter J.
Ramanna, R.
R.E. Peierls
SSAC 52/6/77
G..264-C.265 — Rosbaud, Paul
C.264
G,265
1947-51
1953-60
(includes much editorial correspondence when Rosbaud was
associated with various publishing firms).
.266-C.267
Rosenfeld, Léon
C.266
C3267
1938 (in German), 1946-51, 1953-54
1955-57, 1960, 1962-63, 1971
(includes editorial correspondence when Rosenfeld was an
editor of Nuclear Physics).
See also D.18.
Rosenhead, Louis
C.268
*C.268
1947-54
1956-63
Rotblat, Joseph
C.269
*C.269
(see also F.4-F.8)
1946-48, 1950, 1953-54
1955-57, 1959, 1961
Rzewuski, Jan Feliks
32
1947-60
1947-63
1946-48, 1950,
1953-57,
1959, 1961
1948-53
RR.
1950-63
Salpeter, Edwin Ernest
Salam, Abdus
1950, 1954
1955-63 (see also C.189)
1951
1961
- 1954
1956
1948
Sahd;"M, *3 NG
Salem, Lionel
Schafroth, M.
Schonland, Basil Ferdinand Jamieson
Secord, Campbell
50, 1953, 1959
1948, 1950,
1960, 1964
1953-55
1948-55
1955-60
1946-53, 1958-
59, 1973
Schaefer, Glen W.
Schonland, David
Sharma, Chandra Shekhar
1968-69
1937-39, 1948-
Schultz, Theodore David
Serber, Robert
Shoenberg,
David
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
C.281-C.282
Simon, Francis Eugene
C.281
C.202
1937 (in German), 1945-50
1951-55
(includes report by Simon for Government Information
Service on 'The constructive use of atomic energy’
and of 'In retrospect', his reflections on contemporary
See also A.17.
life as pictured in the popular press).
C.283
singwi, K.-S.
C.284-C.285
Skinner, Herbert W.
8B.
(see also C.53, F.4-F.8)
1950-54
1948~50
C.284
*C.285
1948-54
1956-60
C.286-C. 287
Skyrme, Tony H.R.
C.286
haees,
1945-54
1955-57
(includes typescripts of several papers).
"C.288
Seligman, Henry
Smend, F.
Smithy su":
Stell, George
ime
1962
197
1958
1970
1958
1934
1948, 1950-56,
(See also E.27.)
Sommerfeld, Arnold
Sneddon, lan Naismith
(one letter only, in German)
Covering letter sent with copy of Sommerfeld's leiter to
Raman in India about a chair in Bangalore for which Peier!s
was applying.
The letter (now apparently lost) mentioned
Peierls together with Hopf, another applicant, and assured
Raman that Hopf was the more suitable and deserving of ihe
two.
1958
(in German and English)
Swiatecki, Wladyslaw Jerzy
(see also C.51, C.299
Szilard, Leo:
(one letter only)
Sprung, Donald WW.
L.
Stinchcombe, Robin B.
Spalding, E.
G.
196]
1960-64
1962-63
1966
1946-56
Stuchlik, Karl
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
Caer?
te.
Tott,a.
Takeo, Makoto
Taylor, John A.
Titterton, Ernest William
Trummer, Horst
(in German)
Tadi¢, D.
(see C.306)
"290
G29
Tanner, Neil, W.
Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram
(1944-5! are Peierls's carbons
only)
C.300
Teller, Edward
*C.301
Temperley, Hugh N.Y.
ter Haar, D.
(see C.127-C.128)
*@ 302
*C.303
Thellung, A.
E.
Thompson, Brian Victor
1968-69
1937, 1944-51,
1952, 1959,
1966
1947-49, 1956
$956, 1961,
1965
1962-63
1959-64
deuterons, 1946)
1946-47, 1950-
51, 1959
English)
C.304
G:
1961-66, 1974
1960-66, 1968
van Leuven, D,
(see C.178)
Valctin, J.
G.
Thouless, David J.
Tuan, Tai-Fu and Tadié, D.
Thomson, George Paget
(includes draft of paper on
Uhlenbeck, George E.
Umezawa, H.
Urey, Harold Ciayton
1933;.1%
Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck
Vogt, Erich W.
1956
1955-56, 1963,
Vinh-Mau, Nicole (neé Gilbert)
(in French and English)
von Neumarin, John
(Psierls's carbons only} (in German and
Villars, Felix M.
H.
van Wieringen, J.
S.
1956, 1965
1959-62
1948
1954
1965
1964-69
*C.308
C.309
(see C.326)
Volkoff, G.
M.
1969
1953
R.E. Peierls
CSAC 52/6/77
PEIERLS, Rudolf Ernst
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