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Financial Times : correspondence, 1981-1985

Correspondence on Peierls's review of C.P. Snow, The Physicists (published in the Financial Times, Sep 1981), and on his review of L. Badash, Kapitza, Rutherford and the Kremlin (published in the Financial Times, May 1985), a draft of which is included.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.27
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1981-1985
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Foundations of Physics : correspondence, 1982-1986

Correspondence with the editor A. van der Merwe. Peierls became a member of the editorial board July 1983.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.28
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1982-1986
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Institute of Physics: correspondence, 1975-1993

Correspondence 1975, 1988-1993 on papers by Peierls and others, including 'Spontaneously broken symmetries' published in Journal of Physics A, 24 (1991).
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.36
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1975-1993
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International Commission on Physics Education: correspondence, 1983-1984

Correspondence with editors on the centennial volume for Niels Bohr published by Harvard University Press, 1985. Includes draft of Peierls's contribution, 'Recollections of Niels Bohr'.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.37
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1983-1984
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International Reviews in Physical Chemistry : correspondence, 1987

Brief correspondence on Peierls's review (draft included) of Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.38
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1987
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Kinam : correspondence, 1978-1981

Comprises: correspondence on the launch of this new journal by physicists in Mexico and Peierls's agreement to serve on the editorial board, 1978 correspondence on an article in the first volume, 1981
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.39
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1978-1981
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Correspondence on Science, politics and the public good , 1986-1988

This was a festschrift for M.M. Gowing. Peierls contributed a slightly modified version of his review for Minerva (see MS. 11619/42/E.42).
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.41
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1986-1988
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Minerva : correspondence, 1980-1985

Correspondence including Peierls's review 'Forty years into the atomic age' (Minerva, 22 (1984)) of The nuclear chain reaction - 40 years later. Peierls used this as the basis for a later publication.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.42
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1980-1985
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Nature : correspondence, 1989, 1992

Comprises correspondence on: his article, 'Reflections on the discovery of fission' (Nature, 342) which he thought had been subject to unnecessary delays by the journal, 1989; with draft his reviews of publications on Los Alamos, 1992
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/42/E.44
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1989, 1992