BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
German born American-Danish experimental physicist (Cosmic Rays,
Elementary Particles).
Born in Poland; the family moved to Germany when Peters was 2 year old.
He left for USA 1934 as a fugitive from Nazi-Germany.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1942, under Oppenheimer.
Field of research: cosmic rays
Places of employment:
Berkeley 1942-45 (Manhattan Project); Assistant Prof., University of
Rochester, NY, 1946-51; Prof. exptl. phys., Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Bombay, India, 1951-58; Prof., UITF/NBI,
Copenhagen, 1959-66; Director, Danish Space Research Institute, Lyngby,
Copenhagen, 1966-78.
DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION:
Rochester period: Scientific correspondence on among other things
investigation of cosmic radiation with photographic emulsions.
India, Copenhagen and retirement periods: General correspondence, a
little scientific correspondence and a few article manuscripts.
Period 1948-54, political problems in the USA: Newspaper
clippings, private correspondence.
Private papers and private correspondence, regarding employments and awards.
Correspondents include:
Hannes Alfvén, G. Bernardini, Homi J. Bhabha, Patrick Maynard Stuart
Blackett, Bert Bolin, Jørgen Bøggild, Umberto Campagnolo, Edward U.
Condon, Connie Dilworth (m. Occhialini), David Faiman, Enrico Fermi,
Phyllis Freier, Gene Gardner, Werner Gentner, Gertrude Goldhaber,
Kenneth Greisen, Lajos Janossy, Peter Kapitza, David Kaplan, Kodak
Research Lab. (R.H. Hertz, John Spence), Devendra Lal, Ernest O.
Lawrence, Louis Leprince-Ringuet, W.F. Libby, Ed Lofgren, Robert E.
Marshak, M.G.K. Menon, Giuseppe Occhialini, Office of Naval Research
(Urner Liddel); Frank Oppenheimer, Yash Pal, Cecil Frank Powell, C.V.
Raman, G.D. Rochester, George T. Reynolds, Nathan Rosen, Bruno Rossi,
J. Rotblat, Alfred Schild, Robert Serber, Amos de Shalit, Kurt Sitte,
D.V. Skobeltzyn, Lyman Spitzer, Vatican State (M.S. Wallarta, G.
Lemaitre), Sieg Woulthuysen, Hideki Yukawa.
7 boxes. Photocopies. Chronological, then alphabetical. Mostly English, Danish