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Rice University, Houston, Texas, 6-12 Mar 1981, 1981
Peierls gave the William V. Houston Memorial Lecture, and other seminars.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.31
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1981
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Visit to Japan, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima and other centres, 24 Mar-17 Apr 1981, 1978-1982
Correspondence, arrangements, itinerary, lecture topics, a little personal and social correspondence. Lengthy forward planning was required because of Peierls's peregrinations. See Bird of Passage, pp. 335-336.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.32
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1978-1982
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University of Chicago, 10-12 Jun 1981, 1981-1982
Peierls received an Honorary D.Sc. at the Spring Convocation, and gave a physics colloquium talk. Comprises correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.33
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1981-1982
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 16 Oct-30 Nov 1981, 1978-1982
Peierls was Visiting Professor at the department of Physics where a former pupil, P.K. Kabir, was professor (see Bird of Passage, p. 241). Material comprises correspondence, planning, topics, a little scientific correspondence on work in hand and some personal correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.34
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1978-1982
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 25 Feb-3 Mar 1982, 1982
Correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.35
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982
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University of Sydney and other centres, 5-24 Mar 1982, 1982
Correspondence and arrangements for various visits and lectures in Australia.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.36
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982
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University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 30 Mar-2 Apr 1982, 1982
Correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.37
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982
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Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, May 1982, 1981-1983
Peierls spent a month as Emeritus Professor. Material comprises, correspondence, arrrangements and some scientific correspondence on momentum of light.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.38
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1981-1983
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50th anniversary conference on 'The neutron and its applications', Cambridge, 13-17 Sep 1982, 1980-1982
The conference was organised by the Institute of Physics. Peierls served on the International Advisory Panel and gave detailed advice on organization and topics. Material comprises correspondence, programme and comments.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.39
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1980-1982
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Physics department, Technical University, Munich, 17 Oct-17 Nov 1982, 1981-1984
Peierls was Visiting Professor. This was his first extended visit to Germany since the war (see Bird of Passage, pp. 337-338). Material comprises correspondence and an invitation to lecture again at 'Winter College', Feb-Mar 1984.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.40
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1981-1984
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Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, 18 Nov 1982, 1982
Correspondence, arrangements and topics for colloquium.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.41
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982
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University of Sussex Physical Society, 20 Jan 1983, 1982
Correspondence relating to his lecture, 'The beginnings of neutron physics'.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.42
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982
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Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 20 Mar-6 Apr 1983, 1982-1983
Brief correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.43
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982-1983
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Pennsylvania State University, 6-8 Apr 1983, 1982-1983
Peierls gave the E.W. Mueller Memorial Lecture on 'Recollections of the early days of quantum mechanics', and a seminar. Material comprises correspondence and schedule.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.44
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982-1983
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Rockefeller University, New York, 9-12 Apr 1983, 1982-1983
Correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.45
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982-1983
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 14-15 Apr 1983, 1982-1987
This was the 40th Anniversary Reunion Meeting (see Bird of Passage, p. 338). Peierls's paper, 'Models, hypotheses and approximations' was published in New Directions in Physics, ed. N. Metropolis et al (Academic Press, 1987). Material comprises correspondence, arrangements, programme and publication.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/53/J.46
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1982-1987