Paul Nemenyi

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Paul Felix Nemenyi was a Hungarian physicist specializing in fluid dynamics. Of Jewish descent, he lost his teaching job at a German university when the Nazis came to power. He emigrated to the United States in 1938 and held a series of low-level teaching jobs at various universities. After World War II, he got a research position at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory outside of Washington, DC. He died in 1952 at the age of 56.

He was also identified in a 2002 story in The Philadelphia Inquirer as the likely biological father of chess champion Bobby Fischer; see the "Biography" section of the Fischer article for more details on this issue.

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