Rudolf Peierls’s “Outline of the Development of the British Tube Alloy Project”: A 1945 Account of the Earliest UK Work on Atomic Energy
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Rudolf Peierls’s account, written in July 1945, offers an insider’s view of the early development of the British atomic energy project and its relation to US work, and marginal notes from Sir James Chadwick shine a light on some of the associated politics. This account, preserved in the UK National Archives, is presented here for a wider interested audience, transcribed and with some explanatory notes.
Source: Nuclear Technology
Author: Richard Moore
Institution: AWE Nuclear Security Technologies
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4206291325