Taylor was born in a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He left Hungary on 1926 (partly due to the limitation of university places during Horthy Miklos's time). Hungarian political trends and reforms when he was young, and Gentelle gradually disliked communism and fascism. When he was a young student, he was seriously injured in a tram accident in Munich, which made him wear artificial limbs and limp all his life. Taylor graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Karlsruhe University, and received a doctorate in physics from Leipzig University under the guidance of Werner Heisenberg. Taylor's doctoral thesis deals with the earliest accurate quantum mechanical exposition of hydrogen molecular ions. He became friends with Russian physicists george gamow and Lev Landau in 1930. George placzek, Taylor's lifelong friend and Czech physicist, is very important to Taylor's scientific and philosophical research. It was he who arranged for young Taylor to visit Enrico Fermi in Rome with him, thus setting Taylor's research direction as nuclear physics.

He stayed at the University of G? ttingen for two years, and then left Germany on 1933 with the help of the Jewish Aid Committee. After spending some time in England, he moved to Copenhagen for a year and worked under the guidance of Niels niels bohr. He got married in February 1934, and married the sister of a close friend he had known for many years, named "Mickey (Augusta Maria) Haqqani.

At the instigation of george gamow, Taylor was invited by George Washington University as a professor of physics in 1935, and worked with Gamov until 194 1. Taylor was a theoretical physicist in the fields of quantum, molecular and nuclear physics before the discovery of fission and 1939. 194 1 After becoming an American citizen, his interest turned to the application of nuclear energy, and he was interested in both fission and fusion nuclear energy.

Perhaps Taylor's most important contribution to science is the explanation of Jiang-Taylor effect (1937), which describes the geometric distortion of electron clouds in some cases. It plays an important role in describing the chemical reactions of metals, especially when it is combined with some metal dyes. In cooperation with Bruner and emmett, Taylor also made important contributions to surface physics and chemistry: the three of them discovered Bruner-emmett-Taylor (BET) isotherm together.

When World War II started, Taylor wanted to contribute to the war. At the suggestion of Theodore von Kármán, a famous aerodynamicist of California Institute of Technology and a Hungarian immigrant, Taylor and his friend hans bethe developed a set of oscillation wave propagation theory. Their explanation of the gas properties behind this wave is very valuable to scientists who later studied the missile return technology.