Early Life

Born in Budapest, Hungary on February 11, 1898. He was the son of  a Jewish civil engineer. He was an engineering student at Realiskola from 1908-1916, but he had to join the army in 1917 and was honorably discharged at the end of World War I. In 1919, he resumed studies, but decided to leave Hungary because of antisemitism, so he changed to studying at The Institute of Technology in Berlin. He soon changed to studying Physics and took classes under Einstein, Planck, and Max von Laue. He obtained his doctorate in physics from Humboldt University of Berlin in 1923. He eventually became an instructor in Physics at the University of Berlin.

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