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Symposium and Workshop on Condensed Matter, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 1-15 Aug 1989, 1989

Comprises brief correspondence and manuscript text of Peierls's 'Notes for Trieste Talk'.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.95
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1989
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Symposium and Festschrift for the 70th birthday of L. Radicati, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 11 Oct 1989, 1988-1990

Peierls chaired a session and contributed, 'Remarks about broken symmetries'. Material comprises correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.96
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1988-1990
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Oxford University Scientific Society, 13 Feb 1990, 1989

Peierls spoke on 'Nuclear weapons: how did we get there and where are we going?' Material comprises correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.97
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1989
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International Conference on 'Transition away from confrontation towards cooperation', Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 4-7 Jun 1990, 1990

This and subsequent conferences were organised by G. Salvini, successor of E. Amaldi as President of the Accademia. Peierls spoke on environmental pollution. Material comprises correspondence, information, participants and programme.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.98
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990
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Tonbridge School, Kent, 17 Oct 1990, 1990

Peierls addressed the Upper Sixth Form on 'Nuclear Weapons'. Comprises brief correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.99
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990
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Yugoslavia, 9-15 Oct 1990, 1990-1995

The main purpose of the visit was to attend a symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 'Rudjer Bosskovic' Institute Zagreb and the 75th birthday of its founder I. Supek. Peierls gave a talk on 'People in the early days of quantum mechanics', published in Fizika (Zagreb) 1992, and also visited friends in Ljubljana. Material comprises correspondence on visit and publication, including some references to the political situation, and a transcript…
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.100
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990-1995
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Moscow and Leningrad, 18 Nov-3 Dec 1990, 1990-1991

Visits to laboratories and institutions under the Royal Society Exchange Scheme. During the visit Peierls was formally received as a Foreign Member by the USSR Academy of Sciences. Material comprises correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.101
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990-1991
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Yoshio Nishina Centennial Symposium on 'Evolutional Trends of Physical Science', Tokyo, 5-7 Dec 1990, 1990-1991

Peierls spoke on 'Does physics ever come to an end', published in Evolutionary Trends in the Physical Sciences, Springer 1991. Material comprises correspondence, invitation, programme, participants, letters of thanks and notes (in large print) for Peierls's talk.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.102
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990-1991
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Osaka, 8-15 Dec 1990, 1990-1991

Peierls visited Osaka after the Tokyo symposium and before leaving for California. Material comprises correspondence, arrangements and letters of thanks.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.103
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990-1991
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Symposium on 'Novel Trends in Nuclear Physics' to honour the 70th birthday of M. Preston, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 16-17 May 1991, 1990-1991

Peierls gave the after-dinner speech. Material comprises correspondence, arrangements and programme.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.106
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1990-1991
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Fudan University, Shanghai, 25-26 Sep 1991, 1991

Peierls visited after the Pugwash Conference in Beijing (see MS. 11619/27/C.25). Material comprises correspondence, arrangements, letters of thanks for this visit and for hospitality in Beijing.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.108
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1991
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Conference to mark centenary of the birth of J. Chadwick, University of Liverpool, 16 Oct 1991, 1991-1993

Peierls spoke on 'Chadwick's work during World War II' (later published in Notes and Records ... see MS. 11619/30/D.12). Correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.109
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1991-1993
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Imperial College, London, 22 Jan 1992, 1992

Peierls gave a Departmental Colloquium on 'Observations in quantum mechanics'. Material comprises correspondence and programme.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.111
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1992
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Cambridge, 14-17 Jun 1992, 1991-1992

Peierls gave the Dirac Memorial Lecture, on 'Broken Symmetries' on 15 June, and also various seminars and many social engagements. Material comprises correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.112
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1991-1992
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International Meeting organised by American Nuclear Society and European Nuclear Society to commemorate 'Fifty Years Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction: Past, Present and Future', Chicago, 15-20 Nov 1992, 1992-1993

Correspondence, including draft 'Consensus Statement of the Nuclear Pioneers' drawn up for the meeting, and Peierls's comments on it. Peierls went on to Urbana-Champaign immediately after this meeting.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.113
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1992-1993
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 20-27 Nov 1992, 1991-1993

This visit had originally been planned for March 1992, to follow a conference organised by the American Physical Society History of Physics Division at Indianapolis, at which Peierls was to deliver a talk. Both visits had to be cancelled because of Peierls's ill-health, but his paper 'Early work on solids, mainly in the thirties' was read for him by D. Pines and was published in Review of Modern Physics, 65 (1993). He was able to fulfill a programme of lectures and…
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/57/J.114
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1991-1993