Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 142. Chapters: John von Neumann, George Pólya, Béla Bartók, Eugene Wigner, Thomas Szasz, Edward Teller, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Leó Szilárd, Michael Curtiz, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Isaac Klein, Eva Gabor, Magda Gabor, Jolie Gabor, Robert Capa, Paul Lukas, George Soros, Tom Lantos, André Kertész, Béla H. Bánáthy, Agoston Haraszthy, George Szell, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Charles Simonyi, Eugene Ormandy, Andrew Grove, Marcel Breuer, Theodore von Kármán, Franz Alexander, Ervin Nyíregyházi, Tibor Rubin, Margaret Mahler, Mickey Hargitay, János Starker, Julius Thomas Fraser, Joe Eszterhas, Paul László, László Kovács, Vilma Bánky, Peter Lax, György Kepes, Paul Halmos, Juli Veee, Cornell Capa, Hugo Gellert, John George Kemeny, George Pal, George Andrew Olah, Gabor Boritt, Bob Gansler, Emmerich Kálmán, Fritz Reiner, Cornelius Lanczos, Peter Carl Goldmark, Endre Szemerédi, Leopold Cohn, André de Toth, Kati Marton, Alexander Asboth, Vilmos Zsigmond, Paul Nemenyi, William Herskovic, Martin Munkácsi, Esther Jungreis, Thomas Sebeok, Laszlo Bellak, Zoltán Lajos Bay, György Sándor, Zoltan Korda, Lisa Fittko, Ernö Rapée, J. Edward Bromberg, Sigmund Romberg, Yosef Goldman, Julie Hamos, László Babai, Theodore S. Weiss, Gregory Nagy, Egon Orowan, George Gerbner, Charles Vidor, George Kish, Ava Cadell, Joe Penner, Ilona Massey, Áron Tamási, Judith Leiber, Ernest Laszlo, Titus de Bobula, Gitta Alpár, Richard Bartha, Ernie Konnyu, Ferenc A. Váli, Laszlo Belady, Sylvia Plachy, Éva Szörényi, Paul Czinner, László Tisza, Tibor Radó, Géza Róheim, Charles Korvin, Al Lichtman, Victor Szebehely, Mario Szegedy, Soma Weiss, Laszlo Berkowits, Paul Fejos, Tamás Révész, Iren Marik. Excerpt: John von Neumann (English pronunciation: ) (December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to many fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics, and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history. The mathematician Jean Dieudonné called von Neumann "the last of the great mathematicians", while Peter Lax described him as possessing the most "fearsome technical prowess" and "scintillating intellect" of the century. Even in Budapest, in the time that produced geniuses like Theodore von Kármán (b. 1881), Leó Szilárd (b. 1898), Eugene Wigner (b. 1902), and Edward Teller (b. 1908), his brilliance stood out. Von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, in the development of functional analysis, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed), and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor, and the digital computer. In a short list of facts about his life he submitted to the National Academy of Sciences, he stated "The part of my work I consider most essential is that on quantum mechanics, which developed in Göttingen in 1926, and subsequently in Berlin in 1927-1929. Also, my work on various forms of operator theory, Berlin 1930 and Princeton 1935-1939, on the ergodic theorem, Princeton, 1931-1932." Along with Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physi...