On which project did Peierls work with Hans Bethe?
Victoria University of Manchester
Oxford project
Harvard Project
ETH Zurich Project
Answer
Peierls and Bethe worked together at the Victoria University of Manchester on the development of the Bethe-Peierls model of fission. This model describes the process of nuclear fission as the splitting of a heavy nucleus into two smaller nuclei, with the release of energy. The model was developed in 1939, and was one of the first to successfully explain the process of nuclear fission.
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