With whom did Peierls author the Frisch–Peierls memorandum?
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Otto Robert Frisch
Richard Feynman
Answer
Otto Robert Frisch and Rudolf Peierls collaborated to write the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which was a document that provided early theoretical evidence of the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction.
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