Edward Teller (HM6)

Edward Teller, German Eduard Teller, Hungarian Ede Teller (* January 15th, 1908 in , Austria-Hungary) is a Hungarian-American Physicist.
He studied Chemistry in , but changed to Physics after two years. In 1928, he moved to , where he lost a foot because of an accident involving a tram and had to wear a Prothesis from then on. In the same year, he moved to Leipzig, where he wrote his thesis under . Because of his Jewish family he decided to leave in 1933 and emigrated to England. Afterwards he went to , , with a Rockefeller Stipendium, to work under Niels Bohr. In 1935, he emigrated to the . There, he started working on the , which would later develop the first nuclear bombs. But initially, he researched Quantum, Molecular, and nuclear physics.
In June of 1939, Teller moved from Washington to the Columbia University in City, to work there with and Leó Szilárd at the construction of a Nuclear reactor for creating Energy. About one Month before the invasion of on September 1st, 1939 – start of in Europe – Szilárd formulated a letter addressed to President , in which they hinted at the possibility of the construction of a Uranium Bomb in Nazi Germany. They also had the letter signed by , to give it more weight.
Together with other great Hungarian-Jewish scientists like Paul Erdős, , Leó Szilárd, and Eugene Wigner, who also emigrated to the USA, they're called "The Martians", because of their unconventional ways of thinking.
On February 26th in 1934, he married Augusta Maria „Mici“ Harkanyi in Budapest.
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