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{ "Reker ae $e Le TO FROM SUBJECT: SBPTIONAL FORM No. 10 @ $010-107 eo. _ MAY 1982 EDITION a GS! GEN. REG. NO. 27 a eee “UNITED STATES GC) TRNMENT i Memorandum See tant 7 a ven: DATE: MAR 5 woo min dou dy ae Robert E. gharp, Assistant "Director for .. a Personnel Security, Division of Security, HQ a a weet A, a! A ee RUDOLPH ERNST PEIERLS, UK SCIENTIST f gee Age fh wo — This is an interim response to your recent request for indices checks concerning Dr. Peierls in connection with his proposed temporary employ- ment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Indices checks. have not been completed because of referrals to other agencies. This information has been requested and will be furnished upon receipt. Information received to date has been included with information contained in-Division of Security files and is summarized below, f Dr. Rudolph Ernst Peierls, Information Prior to 1951 Dr. Peierls was born June 5, 1907, in Berlin, Germany, He received his education in Germany and Switzerland and emigrated to England in 1933 because of racial prosecution in Germany. For two years he was a "Research Fellow" at Manchester University and for the next two years at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge, England. He was appointed to the Physics Department in Birmingham University in 1937. There is no positive information on how he met and when he married his wife. It has been alleged that he spent some time teaching in Russia sometime during 1930-39 and that he met and married his wife in Russia. Another source advised the FBI that he believed Dr. Peierls met his wife while attending a scientific conference -in Moscow. In any case, based on the age of their oldest child in 1944 it appears they were married sometime in 1933-34. Dr. Peierls became a naturalized citizen of Great Britain in March 1940, In 1951, Peierls was Vice President of the Council of the Atomic Scientists' Association, reportedly a Communist front organization. He was reported to have been a member of a delegation that visited the British Home Office on August 1, 1947, to ask clemency for Dr. self-admitted b7c and convicted Soviet Agent in the Canadian-Soviet spy case, who was then in prison in England. Eugenia Kannegiesser Peierls, Spouse Security Questionnaire filled out by Mrs. Peierls at Los Alamos, New SY Mrs. Peierls was born July 25, 1908, in Leningrad, Russia. A Personnel S) Pie werd . EN me Tear a te a é moay tr ia tire bois EVWalStien La eudwte Lhahaet Pavoop "tas nionasecrnern astcntctin