Edward Teller
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Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003) who played a major role in the development of nuclear weapons during and after World War II. His work on the hydrogen bomb and his later advocacy for nuclear technology made him a central and controversial figure in 20th-century science and politics.
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- 1908
- Died
- 2003
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- 36
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- Deviations from thermal equilibrium in shock waves
- Notre avenir nucléaire
- Energy and environmental quality
- Memoirs
- Conversations on the dark secrets of physics
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Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; 15 January 1908 – 9 September 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 inspired by Stanisław Ulam.
Born in Austria-Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated to the US in the 1930s, one of the many so-called "Martians", a group of Hungarian scientist émigrés. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy, 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 Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory have retained their original formulation and are mainstays in physics and chemistry.