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Edward Teller

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Edward Teller

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Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

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Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist, and non-fiction writer who later became a United States citizen. Born in Budapest in 1908, he studied at Leipzig University, the University of Göttingen, and Fasori Gimnázium under advisors Werner Heisenberg and Friedrich Hund. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, and was a participant in the Manhattan Project.

Teller received the Harvey Prize, the Albert Einstein Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Eringen Medal. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His doctoral students included Chen-ning Yang, Lincoln Wolfenstein, and Hans-Peter Dürr.

He authored works such as *Memoirs*, *Conversations on the dark secrets of physics*, *Deviations from thermal equilibrium in shock waves*, *Notre avenir nucléaire*, and *Energy and environmental quality*. Teller spoke Hungarian and English. He died in Stanford in 2003. His spouse was Augusta H. Teller.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1908
Died
2003
Works
36

Top works

  • How can America win the cold war?
  • Deviations from thermal equilibrium in shock waves
  • Notre avenir nucléaire
  • Energy and environmental quality
  • Memoirs

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1908
Active to
2003

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8
Total plays
16

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

    · 1953 · cited 29,958x

  2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

    · 2000 · cited 28,571x

  3. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

    · 2000 · cited 24,792x

  4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,546x

  5. THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

    · 1963 · cited 18,994x

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Quotes

  • “It is not even impossible to imagine that the effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons and pushed by the utmost determination will endanger the survival of man.”
  • “I don't want to kill anybody. I am passionately opposed to killing, but I'm even more passionately fond of freedom. The freedom of Dr. Pauling and of myself expressing our opinions freely on any subject, however broad, however far removed of our proper competence, but particularly, to be able to express our opinions in the fields we really know; this would not be possible in Russia.”
  • “By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact. It is a statement of faith.”
  • “There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.”
  • “A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”
  • “Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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