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Edward Teller

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

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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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Born: 1908
Died: 2003
Works: 36

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

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Total plays: 16

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5 total works indexed

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,731x
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 27,733x
Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,347x
The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 23,809x
THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
· 1963 · cited 18,948x

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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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Commons category: Edward Teller
date of birth: 1908-01-15
date of death: 2003-09-09
Erdős number: 3
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name in native language: Teller Ede
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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.