Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like all young Hungarian scientists in those days. Teller took his Ph.D. in Germany (University of Leipzig). When Hitler took power in 1933, Teller was at Gottingen, pursuing research in the molecular structure of matter. With the anti-Semitism that darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
...life-the start of his deep involvement in weaponry, war and politics. When he went to Columbia to work with Szilard on an atomic-energy project, Teller intended to go back to George Washington some day and resume his pure-science investigations into the minute structure of matter. That day never came. In 1943 he found himself heading to New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos A-bomb lab. Recalls Teller: "I was then on leave of absence from the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory [another atomic project], where I was on leave from Columbia, where I was on leave from...
...airing of past Communist associations and his anti-H-bomb campaign as chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the AEC. Oppenheimer moved full-time to the institute in 1947, where he has been "trying to understand the existence, properties and behavior of the fundamental particles of which all matter is composed...
...explains, "that it was scientific fact that I was interested in, and not fiction." He won a fellowship at Columbia, took his Ph.D. there at 21. In 1951 he won the Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences for his work on the interaction of light and matter and the properties of electrons and light, is now involved with studies on general principles of quantum mechanics. Like many other scientists, he is a music lover, once tried teaching himself to play the piano ("I could teach myself physics, but it didn't work in music...
Chief Smith also reported that he had received the Princeton administration's assurance of "full co-operation" in the matter...