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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. Born in Austria-Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated to the United States in the ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Manhattan Project. Edward Teller (born Jan. 15, 1908, Budapest, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died Sept. 9, 2003, Stanford, Calif., U.S.) 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. Teller joined the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1943 as group leader….
Sep 11, 2003 · Edward Teller was born on Jan. 15, 1908, the son of Max Teller, a lawyer, and Ilona Deutsch Teller, an accomplished pianist. Presumably under his mother's influence, Edward became a fine pianist, too.
Sep 10, 2003 · Edward Teller was born in Budapest on Jan. 15, 1908, the son of Max Teller, a lawyer, and Ilona Deutsch Teller, an accomplished pianist. As an infant Dr. Teller, like Einstein, was slow to begin ...
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Jun 27, 2018 · An objective biography of Teller exists: Stanley A. Blumberg and Gwinn Owens, Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller (1976). On the atomic bomb, the H-bomb, and Teller, read, in particular: Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986); Peter Wyden, Day One.
