Profession: Physicist
Why Famous: Jahn–Teller effect, Father of the H-bomb (Hydrogen bomb)
Born: January 15, 1908
Birthplace: Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Generation: Greatest Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Goat/Sheep
Star Sign: Capricorn
Died: September 9, 2003 (aged 95)
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Married Life
- 1934-02-26 Theoretical physicist Edward Teller (25) weds Augusta Maria Harkanyi
Historical Events
- 1951-03-09 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb
- 1952-11-01 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
Erwin Schrödinger
Gordon Gould
Hans Fischer
Isaac Newton
Joseph A. Walker
Robert Oppenheimer