What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls showed the feasibility of an airborne atomic weapon here in 1940 Recorded plaque organisation: University of Birmingham.
Otto Robert Frisch and Rudolf E. Peierls were physicists whose 1940 memorandum demonstrated the theoretical feasibility of an atomic bomb, significantly influencing the development of nuclear weapons during World War II.
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