'Probabilistic physics'. Some personal correspondence and recollections.

Correspondence, 1973, relates to an invitation to Sakharov to work at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette where Michel was principal physicist and which Peierls regularly visited (see Bird of Passage, pp. 316-317). Later correspondence includes scientific and personal material.

Mondragón was a research student at Birmingham 1957-1960, later working at the University of Mexico, Mexico City (see Bird of Passage, pp. 245-246). Letter of 1962 relates to Mondragón's thesis; later correspondence relates to research, visits, etc.

Mainly personal post-retirement correspondence, but includes recollections of Los Alamos, etc.

Motchane, an old friend of Peierls from 1931, founded the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette (IHES). Peierls served on its scientific advisory committee 1963-1974 (see Bird of Passage, p. 316). Letter 1970 is carbon copy from Peierls to Motchane on the organization and running of IHES. Correspondence 1985 includes Peierls's note on 'My contacts with IHES'.

Mainly on nuclear weapons, the arms race and defence. Includes a little personal correspondence.

Scientific and personal correspondence. Includes Peierls's recollections of E. Orowan (see Bird of Passage, p. 316).

Probability density of the photon.

Correspondence, papers and comments on momentum and pseudomomentum.

Nussenzveig, a former visitor to Birmingham, was head of the Physics Institute of the University of Saõ Paulo where Peierls paid an extended visit in 1980. See MS. 11619/52/J.28 (Bird of Passage, p. 334). Includes letter 28 Feb 1989 on the death of G. Beck (q.v.) and an obituary of him by Nussenzveig.

Correspondence 1984 gives Orowan's family news and discusses his current interest in economics, in his characteristic drily humorous style. Includes an obituary of Orowan 1991, with comments by Peierls.

Klaus Fuchs and other topics in the history of science. Brief correspondence only.

Includes recollections and discussions of Heisenberg.