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Who did Peierls assist at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge?

  • Ralph H. Fowler

  • Werner Heisenberg

  • Enrico Fermi

  • Wolfgang Pauli

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At the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Peierls assisted Ralph H. Fowler. Fowler was a physicist and mathematician who is best known for his work on the statistical mechanics of gases. Peierls worked with Fowler on a number of projects, including the development of the statistical theory of the electron gas.
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