![]() work under Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, who a year earlier had been appointed in Leipzig to the chair of theoretical physics. ![]() When, after four months, Edward had recovered, he decided to switch universities again, mainly because he was disappointed by the personality of Sommerfeld, who was formal and distant, and to go to Leipzig to do his Ph.D. The doctors were unable to save his foot, so for the rest of his life he had a prosthetic one, that did not keep him from being an able table tennis player. Shortly after his arrival in Munich, Edward jumped off a moving trolleybus, stumbled, and got his right foot ran over by three cars of the trolley. In April 1928 Edward left the field of chemical engineering and moved to Munich to study theoretical physics under Arnold Sommerfeld, a great mathematical physicist who made important contributions to the development of quantum mechanics. Farben, in those days world's largest chemical company. Karlsruhe was at that time the seat of one of the most outstanding technical universities of the country especially its chemical engineering was strong because of its close cooperation with I.G. After finishing the gymnasium, Edward spent a few months at the university in Budapest, but Januhe moved to Karlsruhe in Germany to study chemical engineering. ![]() The Harkányis were from Jewish descent but had converted to Calvinism. In 1918 Edward entered the famous gymnasium "Minta" ("Model" an advanced German type of high school founded by the father of Theodore von Kármán), where he met his later wife Augusta Maria ("Mici") Harkányi, who was a sister of one of Edward's closest school friends. The Hungarian communists were soon ousted by Rear Admiral Miklós Horthy who headed a fascist regime until the end of World War II. ![]() As a young boy Edward experienced a short and fierce communist dictatorship under Béla Kun (Ma– August 1, 1919) it has been suggested that his rabid aversion of communism in later life was rooted in this experience. Edward's mother Idona was an accomplished pianist who gave up her aspirations to a concert career when she married Edward's father, who was a lawyer. Edward Teller was born to Max Teller and Idona Deutsch, who both were assimilated Hungarian Jews. ![]()
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