# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-peierls
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:44:23.461Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-peierls"
name: "Rudolf Peierls"
slug: "rudolf-peierls"
description: "Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Allied nuclear bomb programme. His 1996 obituary in Physics Today described him as \"a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs\"."
tagline: "German-born British physicist"
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birthDate: "1907-06-05"
deathDate: "1995-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump