Edward Teller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Teller

Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1908

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 09-Sep-2003

Profession: inventor, university teacher, non-fiction writer, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Hungary, United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Edward Teller

  • Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care for the title, and was only part of a team who developed the technology.
  • Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality. Teller was born in Hungary in 1908, and emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, one of the many so-called "Martians", a group of prominent Hungarian scientist emigrĂ©s.
  • He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (in particular the Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects), and surface physics.
  • His extension of Enrico Fermi's theory of beta decay, in the form of Gamow–Teller transitions, provided an important stepping stone in its application, while the Jahn–Teller effect and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory have retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry.Teller also made contributions to Thomas–Fermi theory, the precursor of density functional theory, a standard modern tool in the quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules.
  • In 1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and his wife Augusta Teller, Teller co-authored a paper that is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics.Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, charged with developing the first atomic bomb, and proposed the solid pit implosion design which was successful.
  • He made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II.
  • He did not sign the Szilard petition, which sought to have the bombs detonated as a demonstration, but not on a city, but later agreed that Szilard was right, and the bombs should not have been dropped on a defenceless civilian population.
  • He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and was both its director and associate director for many years. After his controversial negative testimony in the Oppenheimer security hearing convened against his former Los Alamos Laboratory superior, J.
  • Robert Oppenheimer, Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued, however, to find support from the U.S.
  • government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program.
  • In his later years, Teller became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermonuclear explosive in what was called Project Chariot, and Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Teller's contributions to science garnered him numerous awards, including the Enrico Fermi Award and Albert Einstein Award.
  • He died on September 9, 2003, in Stanford, California, at 95.

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