The Albert Einstein Medal and the $5,000 award of the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund will be given this year to Dr. Edward Teller, Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist. The award will go to the Jewish scientist for his contribution to “human knowledge in the natural sciences.”
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