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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.
Jun 3, 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.
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 10, 2003 · Edward Teller, who was present at the creation of the first nuclear weapons and who grew even more famous for defending them, died yesterday at his home on the Stanford University campus in Palo...
Apr 12, 2017 · From 1975, Edward Teller was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute for the Study of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Sep 11, 2003 · Edward Teller, the physicist known as the "father of the H-bomb" for his role in the development of nuclear weapons, has died in California aged 95. A spokeswoman for Stanford...
Sep 11, 2003 · Edward Teller, the 'father of the H-bomb', has died aged 95. Teller was one of the most controversial figures to emerge from the US nuclear-weapons programme instigated during the Second...
Dr. Edward Teller, world-renowned physicist, co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a lifelong advocate for education, died Tuesday, September 9, 2003. He was 95. Teller died in his home, located on the Stanford University campus. He had suffered a stroke a few days ago.
Edward Teller, orig. Ede Teller, (born Jan. 15, 1908, Budapest, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died Sept. 9, 2003, Stanford, Calif.), Hungarian-born U.S. nuclear physicist. Born to a prosperous Jewish family, he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig (1930) before leaving Nazi Germany (1933) and settled in the U.S. in 1935.
Edward Teller, a theoretical physicist, was born on January 18, 1908, into a prosperous, middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. The turbulence caused by World War I followed by revolution and successive socialist and authoritarian Hungarian regimes prompted Teller to leave Hungary.
