Relating to nuclear weapons and test bans.

Relating to Jewish achievement in physical science.

Dyson was a long-term colleague and friend who had spent a period in the Birmingham Department (of which he is described as 'a very unique and imaginative member', Bird of Passage, p. 234), lodging for part of that time with the Peierls. Comprises personal and scientific correspondence including miscellaneous items written or translated by Dyson, his obituary of Dirac 1986 with comments by Peierls, and Peierls's review of Dyson's book, …

Elliott was a long-term colleague of Peierls at Oxford and succeeded him as Wykeham Professor in 1974. See Bird of Passage, pp. 291, 327. The correspondence is mainly Oxford departmental news.

Personal and career. See Bird of Passage, p. 306.

Relating to the history of science, and to a conference and participants at Geneva, 1934.

Flowers, 'a promising and lively experimentalist', came to Birmingham on secondment from Harwell in 1950 for training in theoretical research. A lasting friendship developed, though in this case it was Mary who lodged with the Peierls before their marriage. The Flowers shared the Peierls's predilection for humorous light verse and celebrations. See Bird of Passage, pp. 235-237. Mainly personal correspondence, some from Mary Flowers (not all dated) and…

Frenkel was the son of Y.I. Frenkel, a distinguished theoretician from Leningrad, who obtained an invitation for Peierls to the conference at Odessa in 1930 at which he and Genia Peierls first met (Bird of Passage, pp. 61-62). Correspondence relates almost entirely to historical writings and recollections of Frenkel, Tamm, Gamov and others, and of the Odessa conference. Some letters are addressed to Genia.

Correspondence relates almost entirely to historical writings and recollections of Frenkel, Tamm, Gamov and others, and of the Odessa conference. Includes verses by Gamov.

Correspondence relates almost entirely to historical writings and recollections of Frenkel, Tamm, Gamov and others, and of the Odessa conference. Includes copy of Peierls's recollections of Y.I. Frenkel, published in Physics Today, Jun 1994.