biography
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| (1899–1981)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Nikolaev, the Ukraine. He went to the USA in 1915, joined the Carnegie Institution (1924–9), then taught at several American universities before moving to the State University of New York, Buffalo (1968–76). A major contributor to the fields of nuclear physics and quantum electrodynamics, he theorized that the hydrogen bomb would not engender an uncontrolled chain reaction resulting in global destruction. |
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