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The most significant work was done by Eugene Wigner (who came from Hungary), George Gamow (Russia), Felix Bloch (Switzerland), Hans Bethe (Germany), Edward Teller (Hungary), and Victor Weisskopf (Austria).
FORBES: A Veterans Day Story: Immigrants and the Atomic Bomb
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Edward Teller and George Gamow had set up a series of meetings among astronomers and theoretical physicists who shared the goal of exploring the key energy issues of the period.
FORBES: A Veterans Day Story: Immigrants and the Atomic Bomb
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In 1948 George Gamow, a fellow pioneer of nuclear physics, added Mr Bethe's name without asking to a paper that explained how chemical elements had been made in the Big Bang.
ECONOMIST: Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, died on March 6th, aged 98