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<date standardDate="0020-03-22">15 January 1908</date>
<event>Born, Budapest, Hungary</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1926">1926</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1928">1928</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1928">1928</date>
<event>Student, University of Munich, Germany</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1929">1929</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1931">1931</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1930">1930</date>
<event>Ph.D., University of Leipzig</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1931">1931</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1933">1933</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Research associate, Guttingen, Germany</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1934">1934</date>
<chronItemSet>
<event>Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi</event>
<event>Rockefeller fellow, Copenhagen, Netherlands</event>
</chronItemSet>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1934">1934</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1935">1935</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Lecturer, University of London, United Kingdom</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1935">1935</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1941">1941</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor of physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1941">1941</date>
<event>Naturalized, Washington, D.C.</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1941">1941</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1942">1942</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor of physics, Columbia University, New York City</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1942">1942</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1943">1943</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Physicist, University of Chicago, Illinois</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1942">1942</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1946">1946</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Physicist, Manhattan Engineer District of Columbia</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1943">1943</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1946">1946</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Physicist, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1946">1946</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1952">1952</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor of physics, University of Chicago</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1949">1949</date>
<event>Author (with Francis Owen Rice), The Structure of Matter</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1949">1949</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1952">1952</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Assistant director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1952">1952</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1953">1953</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Consultant, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1953">1953</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1960">1960</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateSet>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1954">1954</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1958">1958</toDate>
</dateRange>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1960">1960</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1975">1975</toDate>
</dateRange>
</dateSet>
<event>Associate director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1958">1958</date>
<event>Author (with Albert L. Latter), Our Nuclear Future</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1958">1958</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1960">1960</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1960">1960</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1970">1970</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor of physics-at-large, University of California</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1962">1962</date>
<event>Author (with Allen Brown), The Legacy of Hiroshima</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1963">1963</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1966">1966</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Professor emeritus and chairman, Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis and
Livermore</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1968">1968</date>
<event>Author (with Gerald W. Johnson, Wilson K. Talley, and Gary H. Higgins), The Constructive Uses of Nuclear
Explosives</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1969">1969</date>
<event>Author (with Segre, Kaplan, and Schiff), Great Men of Physics</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1970">1970</date>
<event>Author, General Remarks on Electronic Structure and the Hydrogen Molecular Ion, and General Theory of Electron
Structure</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1970">1970</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1975">1975</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>University professor, University of California</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1972">1972</date>
<event>Author, The Miracle of Freedom</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1975">1975</date>
<event>Author, Energy: A Plan for Action</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1975">1975</fromDate>
<toDate/>
</dateRange>
<chronItemSet>
<event>University professor emeritus, University of California</event>
<event>Director emeritus and consultant, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory</event>
<event>Senior research fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California</event>
</chronItemSet>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1977">1977</date>
<event>Author, Nuclear Energy in the Developing World</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1979">1979</date>
<event>Author, Energy from Heaven and Earth</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1980">1980</date>
<event>Author, The Pursuit of Simplicity</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1987">1987</date>
<event>Author, Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1989">1989</date>
<event>Presidential Citizens Medal,</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1991">1991</date>
<event>Author, Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1998">1998</date>
<event>Awarded a Magyarsag Hirneveert Dij, the highest official Hungarian government award</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="2001">2001</date>
<event>Author, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="2002">2002</date>
<event>Department of Energy Gold Award</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="2003-07">July 2003</date>
<event>Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="0015-02-24">9 September 2003</date>
<event>Died at his home on Stanford campus</event>
</chronItem>
</chronList>
<citation xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">From the guide to the Edward Teller Papers, 1930-2003, (Hoover Institution
Archives)</citation>
</biogHist>