Bernard Peters
Bernard Peters (born Bernhard Pietrowski in 1910 in Posen, Germany - February 2, 1993 in Copenhagen) was a nuclear physicist, with a specialty in cosmic radiation. He was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award.[1]
Life
Towards the end of the First World War, his father, pharmacology researcher and physician, sent him to the Black Forest to a farmer so he could obtain food in exchange for manual labor. In 1942, under the direction of Robert Oppenheimer, Peters completed his doctorate in physics.[2]
In 1954, during the J. Robert Oppenheimer security hearing, the he was accused of being a communist sympathizer. Peters then could not find work in the United States.[3] He left the country to Mumbai, India, where he continued to study cosmic rays for eight years. Over the next four decades, he directed several studies on cosmic rays.[4]
Peters died February 2, 1993 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Works
- Deuteron disintegration by electrons. Scattering of mesotrons of spin ¹/₂, University of California, Berkeley, 1942 (thèse doctorale)
- Cosmic rays, solar particles, and space research, New York : Academic Press, 1963
- Cosmic radiation and its origin : contemporary problems, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France : European Space Research Organisation, 1967
- Creation of particles at cosmic-ray energies, Genève : CERN, 1966
Cosmic rays, New York : Academic Press, 1963
References
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the français Wikipedia.
