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Sir Rudolf Peierls was with Oliphant in Cambridge from 1935 to 1937, and in Birmingham from 1937 to Oliphant's departure for Australia. He moved to Oxford in 1963, where he is now Emeritus Wykeham Professor.
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Peierls, R. Physicist extraordinary. Nature 296, 685 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/296685a0
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