Eugen Glueckauf FRS[1] (9 April 1906 – 12 September 1981) was a German-born British expert on nuclear power.
With the political and economic climate in Germany worsening, Glückauf left for England where, at first, life for him was not easy either.
[3] In 1944 Glückauf was invited to join the Department of "Tube Alloys" – code for work on atomic energy – involving the use of ion-exchange and gas chromatography to separate isotopes.
[1] Eugen Glückauf married Irma Elise Auguste Trepper, also from Germany, in Surrey in 1934.
In a Transcript of Manuscrpt Biographical Notes[6] he recorded that "Early in 1935 I sent my wife a telegram: 'Can you learn English shorthand?