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Peter Hirsch is a German-born American physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work in the field of nuclear physics, particularly his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb. Hirsch was born in Berlin, Germany, on 16 January 1925. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Berlin in 1950. After completing his studies, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Berlin. In 1954, he moved to the United States and joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. At Berkeley, Hirsch worked on the development of the atomic bomb, and was part of the team that developed the first hydrogen bomb. He also worked on the development of the neutron bomb, and was a member of the team that developed the first nuclear reactor. Hirsch has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award, and the Wolf Prize in Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As of 2021, Peter Hirsch is 98 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm) and a weight of 78 kg (172 lbs). He has grey hair and blue eyes. His zodiac sign is Capricorn. Hirsch is currently single. He has never been married and does not have any children. Hirsch has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as a physicist and professor.

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Age 99 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 16 January, 1925
Birthday 16 January
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Nationality Germany

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2001

Hirsch was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for experimentally establishing the role of dislocations in plastic flow and of electron microscopy as a tool for materials research. He is also a fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

1950

In the mid-1950s he pioneered the application of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to metals and developed in detail the theory needed to interpret such images. He was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1960 to 1966 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's in 1978. In 1965, with Howie, Whelan, Pashley and Nicholson, he published the text Electron microscopy of thin crystals. The following year he moved to Oxford to take up the Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy, succeeding William Hume-Rothery. He held this post until his retirement in 1992, building up the Department of Metallurgy (now the Department of Materials) into a world-renowned centre. Among many other honours, he was awarded the 1983 Wolf Foundation Prize in physics. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1963 and knighted in 1975.

1925

Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. Hirsch attended Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1946 he joined the Crystallography Department of the Cavendish to work for a PhD on work hardening in metals under W.H. Taylor and Lawrence Bragg. He subsequently carried out work, which is still cited, on the structure of coal.