About Valentine Telegdi
Valentine Louis "Val" Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-American physicist. == Biography == Valentine Telegdi was born in 1922 in Budapest, Hungary, in a Jewish family. His father, Georges, was from Pécs, Hungary, while his mother, Ella Csillag, was from Békéscsaba. His father studied commerce in Budapest, and went to Paris after graduation. He was detained as an enemy alien during the war, and returned to Budapest after five years. Several years later, finding the life in Hungary under Bela Kun to be difficult, he found a job for a transportation company in Bulgaria. His mother returned to Budapest to give birth. Valentine spent his early childhood in Bulgaria and Romania, and returned to Hungary in 1928. In 1932, the family moved to Vienna. Val was interested in science, and at 13 received a chemistry set as a gift. There, he first earned a living doing technical translations, and later started to work at a patent office.
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