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...some the most crucial, controversial events in twentieth-century history. In telling his story, Teller divides his life into two basic phases.
The first period covers Teller's life to age thirty-five. These were salad days in which he grew to intellectual maturity during one of the most exciting periods in the history of physics. Yet, this was also a time in which Teller, like other Jewish scientists, was haunted by the specter of anti-Semitism that drove him from his native Hungary to Germany where he found full acceptance among the small, select community that was teasing out the implications of the quantum revolution that had overthrown classical, Newtonian mechanics. After a sojourn in German universities where he established himself as one of the masters of quantum esoterica, Teller was again forced to flee before anti-Semitism, this time to England where he first secured a teaching job in England. Shortly after arriving in England, he was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship that took him to Copenhagen, "the first assembly point of the Diaspora of the German physicists." (p. 95) When his fellowship ended, he returned briefly to London prior to immigrating in 1935 to the United States where he became a full professorship at George Washington University, lecturing on quantum mechanics.
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