John von Neumann
Von Neumann entered the Lutheran Fasori Evangelikus Gimnazium in 1911. This was one of the best schools in Budapest, part of a brilliant education system designed for the elite. Under the Hungarian system, children received all their education at the one gymnasium. Despite being run by the Lutheran Church, the majority of its pupils were Jewish. The school system produced a generation noted for intellectual achievement, that included Theodore von Karman (b. 1881), George de Hevesy (b. 1885), Leo Szilard (b. 1898), Eugene Wigner (b. 1902), Edward Teller (b. 1908), and Paul Erdos (b. 1913). Collectively, they were sometimes known as Martians. Wigner was a year ahead of von Neumann at the Lutheran School. When asked why the Hungary of his generation had produced so many geniuses, Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, replied that von Neumann was the only genius.
What did Von Neumann enter in 1911?
Lutheran Fasori Evangelikus Gimnazium
Von Neumann entered the Lutheran Fasori Evangelikus Gimnazium in 1911.
Von Neumann