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Physicist; led team developing the H-bomb.

Advisor to Ronald Reagan during his Presidency, was major proponent of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or "Star Wars")

Played Major role in development of the Hydrogen Bomb (with Stanislaw Ulam, developed the Ulam-Teller design which used a fission bomb to create a larger fusion reaction in heavy hydrogen).

He and his wife became American citizens in 1941.

He was one of the hundreds of scientists called to Los Alamos, New Mexico during the second world war to work on The Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb before the Germans.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 534-537. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.

Was fluent in Hungarian, German, Romanian, and English. He studied German literature and worked on English language translations. After residing in America for most of his life he declared that he was most comfortable in English.