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== Early life and education == Nicolas Metropolis was born on June 11, 1915, in Chicago, US. Metropolis received his BSc (1936) and PhD in chemical physics (1941) at the [[University of Chicago]]. During his PhD he worked with [[Robert Mulliken]]. After graduation, he worked as an instructor at the University of Chicago with [[James Franck]]. Shortly afterwards, in 1943, [[Robert Oppenheimer]] recruited him from Chicago for the [[Manhattan Project]], where he worked in [[Harold C. Urey]]'s group. Later he joined University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory and worked under [[Edward Teller]]'s supervision, who encouraged him to move into theoretical physics. At Los Alamos Metropolis worked together with [[Richard Feynman]] on "electromechanical devices used for hand computations".<ref name=obit/>
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