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Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design.
Apr 11, 2024 · Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who participated in the production of the first atomic bomb (1945) and who led the development of the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb.
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Edward Teller was born in Budapest on January 15th 1908 into a rich Hungarian Jewish family. His mother was Ilona Deutsch, a pianist, and his father, Max Teller, was an attorney. He left Hungary in 1926 and moved to Germany. As a student in Munich he lost his right foot under a moving streetcar requiring him to wear a prosthetic foot and leaving hi...
After working for two years at the University of Gottingen, Teller left Germany in 1933 and moved to Copenhagen for a year working for Niels Bohr. In 1934 he married Augusta Maria) Harkanyi. They went on to have two children, Paul and Wendy. Teller moved to America in 1935 accepting the position of professor of physics at the George Washington Univ...
Edward Teller died in Stanford, California on September 9, 2003. He was 95 years old. The same year he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Edward Teller (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist. He is considered one of the fathers of the hydrogen bomb. Teller, along with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner, helped urge President Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb program in the United States.
Sep 9, 2003 · In 1935, Teller was invited to the U.S. to become a Professor of Physics at the George Washington Universitiy, where he worked with Gamow until 1941. He was engaged as a theoretical physicist, working in the fields of quantum, molecular and nuclear physics.
Jun 27, 2018 · The Hungarian-American physicist Edward Teller (born 1908)—sometimes called the "father" or the "architect" of the hydrogen bomb—was for decades on the forefront of the nuclear question and in the 1980s was an advocate of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as "Star Wars."
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