He liked to read scientific papers in enlarged script on a computer screen. During 1995, his health continued to decline, and he required regular kidney dialysis sessions at Churchill Hospital, where he died on 19 September 1995. Honours Peierls was knighted in the 1968 Birthday Honours. He was awarded the Rutherford Memorial Medal in 1952, the Royal Medal in 1959, the Lorentz Medal in 1962, the Max Planck Medal in 1963, the Guthrie Medal and Prize in 1968, the Matteucci Medal in 1982, and the Enrico Fermi Award from the United States Government for exceptional contribution to the science of atomic energy in 1980. In 1986, he was awarded the Copley Medal, and delivered the Rutherford Memorial Lecture, and in 1991 he was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize. On 2 October 2004, the building housing the sub-department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford was formally named the Sir Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. Notes See also Cavity method Peierls–Bogoliubov inequality Peierls–Nabarro potential Hofstadter's butterfly Mermin–Wagner theorem Mott insulator References External links 1979 Audio Interview with Sir Rudolf Peierls by Martin Sherwin Voices of the Manhattan Project War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Dawn; Interview with Rudolf Peierls, 1986 FBI file on Rudolf and Eugenia Peierls 1907 births 1995 deaths Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 20th-century British physicists Enrico Fermi Award recipients Wykeham Professors of Physics Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the French Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 20th-century German physicists Jewish scientists Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Manhattan Project people People associated with the nuclear weapons programme of the United Kingdom Recipients of the Copley Medal Recipients of the Medal of Freedom Lorentz Medal winners Royal Medal winners Winners of the Max Planck Medal Jewish physicists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Bachelor Leipzig University alumni Recipients of the Matteucci Medal