Edward Teller was born in 1905 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his doctorate in physics in 1930 from the University of Leipzig. With Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, Teller immigrated to Denmark in 1934, and joined Neils Bohr at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 1935, Teller left Europe and moved to the United States, accepting a post as visiting professor at George Washington University. By 1941, he had become an U.S. citizen.

Teller, along with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner,persuaded Albert