Bernard Peters (born Bernhard Pietrowski in 1910 in Posen, Germany - February 2, 1993 in Copenhagen)[citation needed] was a nuclear physicist, with a specialty in cosmic radiation.
[1] 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.
[2] During his time at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory Peters was active in the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, a labor union affiliated to the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Peters could not find work in the United States,[4] and in 1951 he left the country for Mumbai, India where he continued to study cosmic rays for eight years.
Peters was involved in the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) and other international organizations and realized early on the importance of scientific satellites in geostationary orbit and contributed to the GEOS satellite being included in ESRO's scientific program and to the Danish Space Research Institute being strongly placed in this program.