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Selected Scientific Papers Of Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Author : R H Dalitz
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 1997-04-11
Selected Scientific Papers Of Sir Rudolf Peierls written by R H Dalitz and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-11 with Science categories.
This book is a collection of the major scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907–95), including the Peierls–Frisch Memoranda of 1940 on the feasibility, and the predicted human effects, of an atomic bomb made of uranium-235. His papers range widely in topic. They include much on the fundamentals of solid state physics, the thermal and electric conductivity of materials as a function of temperature T (especially T→0), the interpretation of the de Haas–van Alphen effect observed for a metal in a magnetic field, and the basics of transport theory. Many are on problems in statistical mechanics, including his constructive paper demonstrating the existence of a phase transition for Ising's model for a two-dimensional ferromagnet. In nuclear physics, they include the first calculations (with Bethe) on the photo-disintegration of the deuteron (made in response to a challenge by Chadwick), the Kapur–Peierls theory of resonance phenomena in nuclear reactions, the Bohr–Peierls–Placzek continuum model for complex nuclei (which first explained the narrow resonances observed for low energy neutrons incident on very heavy nuclei), and the Peierls–Thouless variational approach to collective phenomena in nuclei. Several of Peierls's wartime papers, now declassified, are here published for the first time. Brief commentaries on most of the papers in this book were added by Peierls, to indicate subsequent developments and their relationship with other work, or to correct errors found later on. A complete bibliography of his writings is given as an appendix. Contents:Theory of the Hall EffectKinetic Theory of Thermal Conduction in Crystals: Theory of Electric and Thermal Conductivity of MetalsTheory of the Diamagnetism of Conduction ElectronsQuantum Theory of the Diplon (Deuteron)Ising's Model of FerromagnetismDispersion Formula for Nuclear ReactionsCritical Conditions for Neutron MultiplicationThe Peierls–Frisch Memorandum of 1940Commutation Laws of Relativistic Field TheoryField Equations in Functional FormCollective Model of Nuclear MotionTwo-Stage Model of Fermi InteractionsComplex Eigenvalues in Scattering TheoryResonance States and Their UsesMomentum and Pseudomomentum of Light and SoundBroken Symmetriesand other papers Readership: Nuclear, condensed matter and theoretical physicists. keywords:Frisch-Peierls Memoranda;U235;Implosion;Plutonium;Heat Conductivity;Los Alamos;Photodisintegration;Ising-Model;Peierls-Transition;Bohr-Peierls-Placzek Model;Heat Conductivity;Nuclear Physics “This book gives a fascinating picture of the early development of quantum mechanics … If you want your library to have good source material on the history of modern theoretical physics you should see that it acquires this book.” D Thouless University of Washington, Seattle “The book is well produced and a worthy volume in its Series. It is to be recommended for acquisition by libraries and scholars with interests in its subject matter.” Mathematical Reviews
Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Author : Sabine Lee
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2009
Sir Rudolf Peierls written by Sabine Lee and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Science categories.
This edition of the private and scientific correspondence of Sir Rudolf Peierls gives a unique insight into the life and work of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century. Rudolf Peierls'' scientific work contributed to the early developments in quantum mechanics, and he is well known and much appreciated for his contributions to various disciplines, including solid state physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. As an enthusiastic and devoted teacher, he passed on his knowledge and understanding and inspired the work of collaborators and students alike. As an effective administrator he was responsible, almost single-handedly, for the establishment of an outstanding successful centre of theoretical physics in Birmingham, and later contributed much to theoretical physics in Oxford.
Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Author : Rudolf Ernst Peierls
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Release Date : 2007
Sir Rudolf Peierls written by Rudolf Ernst Peierls and has been published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
This edition of the private and scientific correspondence of Sir Rudolf Peierls gives a unique insight into the life and work of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century. Rudolf Peierls' scientific work contributed to the early developments in quantum mechanics, and he is well known and much appreciated for his contributions to various disciplines, including solid state physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. As an enthusiastic and devoted teacher, he passed on his knowledge and understanding and inspired the work of collaborators and students alike. As an effective administrator he was responsible, almost single-handedly, for the establishment of an outstanding successful centre of theoretical physics in Birmingham, and later contributed much to theoretical physics in Oxford.A meticulous collector of correspondence, Sir Rudolf left a fascinating collection of letters, in some cases spanning more than seven decades. This collection includes correspondence with his parents, his wife, the Russian-born physicist Genia Kannegieser, life-long friends such as Hans Bethe, and many great physicists, including Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Lev Landau, and George Placzek, to name but a few.This first volume, which covers the years 1922 to 1945, contains much of the early family correspondence, letters exchanged between Rudolf and Genia Peierls before and after their marriage in 1931, correspondence relating to early developments in quantum physics, and interesting material relating to the development of nuclear weapons. The extensive apparatus provides an invaluable background which allows the reader to put the presented documents into their multi-faceted social, political and scientific context.This book is also available as a set with Sir Rudolf Peierls: Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence Volume 2.
Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Rudolf Peierls And Theoretical Physics
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Author : Rudolf Ernst Peierls
language : en
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Release Date : 1977
Rudolf Peierls And Theoretical Physics written by Rudolf Ernst Peierls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Oxford, England categories.
Selected Scientific Papers Of Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Author : Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
language : en
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Release Date : 1997
Selected Scientific Papers Of Sir Rudolf Peierls written by Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Physics categories.
This book is a collection of the major scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-95), including the Peierls-Frisch Memoranda of 1940 on the feasibility, and the predicted human effects, of an atomic bomb made of uranium-235. His papers range widely in topic. They include much on the fundamentals of solid state physics, the thermal and electric conductivity of materials as a function of temperature T (especially T→0), the interpretation of the de Haas-van Alphen effect observed for a metal in a magnetic field, and the basics of transport theory. Many are on problems in statistical mechanics, including his constructive paper demonstrating the existence of a phase transition for Ising's model for a two-dimensional ferromagnet. In nuclear physics, they include the first calculations (with Bethe) on the photo-disintegration of the deuteron (made in response to a challenge by Chadwick), the Kapur-Peierls theory of resonance phenomena in nuclear reactions, the Bohr-Peierls-Placzek continuum model for complex nuclei (which first explained the narrow resonances observed for low energy neutrons incident on very heavy nuclei), and the Peierls-Thouless variational approach to collective phenomena in nuclei. Several of Peierls's wartime papers, now declassified, are here published for the first time.Brief commentaries on most of the papers in this book were added by Peierls, to indicate subsequent developments and their relationship with other work, or to correct errors found later on. A complete bibliography of his writings is given as an appendix.
Surprises In Theoretical Physics
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Author : Rudolf Peierls
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Surprises In Theoretical Physics written by Rudolf Peierls and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Science categories.
Problems in theoretical physics often lead to paradoxical answers; yet closer reasoning and a more complete analysis invariably lead to the resolution of the paradox and to a deeper understanding of the physics involved. Drawing primarily from his own experience and that of his collaborators, Sir Rudolf Peierls selects examples of such "surprises" from a wide range of physical theory, from quantum mechanical scattering theory to the theory of relativity, from irreversibility in statistical mechanics to the behavior of electrons in solids. By studying such surprises and learning what kind of possibilities to look for, he suggests, scientists may be able to avoid errors in future problems. In some cases the surprise is that the outcome of a calculation is contrary to what physical intuition seems to demand. In other instances an approximation that looks convincing turns out to be unjustified, or one that looks unreasonable turns out to be adequate. Professor Peierls does not suggest, however, that theoretical physics is a hazardous game in which one can never foresee the surprises a detailed calculation might reveal. Rather, he contends, all the surprises discussed have rational explanations, most of which are very simple, at least in principle. This book is based on the author's lectures at the University of Washington in the spring of 1977 and at the Institut de Physique Nucleaire, University de Paris-Sud, Orsay, during the winter of 1977-1978.
Sir Rudolf Peierls
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Release Date : 2007
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Bird Of Passage
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Author : Rudolf Peierls
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Bird Of Passage written by Rudolf Peierls and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage," whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of physics--including Munich, Leipzig, Zurich, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos. Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s, working with some of the pioneers and, as he puts it, "some of the great characters" in this field. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.