Rudolph
Peierls was born on June 5, 1907, in Berlin, Germany.
He was a British nuclear scientist assigned to work
at Los Alamos, New Mexico and worked with Klaus
Fuchs. In September of 1966, Rudolph Peierls worked
for five weeks at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
in Upton, New York on a non classified project.
Eugenia Peierls, the wife of Rudolph, was born July
25, 1908, at Leningrad, Russia. In March 1940, both
Rudolph and Eugenia Peierls became naturalized citizens
of Great Britain.
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