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If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at 

the turn of the 20th century in the same neighborhood in Budapest: Theodore von 

Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. Through 

immigration from Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends 

and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. 

As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific 

and political developments of the 20th century.

They were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in 

theoretical physics without ever having taken a formal college-level physics 

course, Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was 

possible but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms, von Neumann could 

solve problems in his head for which most people needed computers, von Karman 

became the first director of NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Lab, and Teller was the 

father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial 

\"Star Wars\" defense initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated and 

politically active, reactionaries against the fascism and anti-Semitism with 

which they had grown up. Istvan Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physicist, was 

able to get to know these great men in their later years, and the depth of 

information and human interest in this book is the result of his personal 

relationships with the subjects, their families and their contemporaries. 



Table of Contents



1	Arrival and departure	3

2	Turning points in Germany	33

3	Second transition : to the United States	65

4	\"To protect and defend\" : World War II	89

5	To deter : cold war	131

6	Being Martian	187

App	Sampler of quotable Martians	241



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    * ISBN: 0195178459

    * ISBN-13: 9780195178456

    * Format: Hardcover, 376pp

    * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

    * Pub. Date: June 2006



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