Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
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The physicist who fathered the hydrogen bomb and then spent decades pushing every nuclear solution he could imagine — harbors blasted by thermonuclear charge, space-based missile shields — while most of his peers turned away after he testified against Oppenheimer.
Born in Austria-Hungary in 1908, Teller arrived in the U.S. in the 1930s among the wave of Hungarian émigrés known as "the Martians." His early work yielded tools still in use: Gamow–Teller transitions in beta decay, the Jahn–Teller effect, BET theory in surface physics, contributions to what became density functional theory and Monte Carlo methods in statistical mechanics. He joined the Manhattan Project but kept pushing for fusion weapons even as the war ended. In 1953 he co-founded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to pursue the hydrogen bomb, which bore his and Ulam's design. That sam…
Sourced, dated quotes from Edward Teller
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.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple.
The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans.
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