"Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" Edward Teller Signed 5x3.5 Photo For Sale
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"Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" Edward Teller Signed 5x3.5 Photo:
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Up for sale the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" Edward Teller Hand Signed 5x3.5 Photo. Slight smudging of the signature not affecting its integrity.
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Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15,
1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who
is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design),
although he did not care for the title, and was only part of a team who
developed the technology.Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his
scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile
personality. Teller was born in Hungary in 1908, and emigrated to the United
States in the 1930s, one of the many so-called "Martians", a
group of prominent Hungarian scientist émigrés. He made numerous physics, spectroscopy (in particular 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 the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory have
retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics made contributions to Thomas–Fermi theory, the
precursor of density functional theory,
a standard modern tool in the quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules. In
1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis, Ariann Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and
his wife Augusta Teller, Teller
co-authored a paper that is a standard starting point for the applications of
the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics. Teller was an early
member of the Manhattan Project, charged
with developing the first atomic bomb, and proposed the solid pit implosion
design which was successful. He made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until
after World War II. He did not
sign the Szilard petition, which
sought to have the bombs detonated as a demonstration, but not on a city, but
later agreed that Szilard was right,
and the bombs should not have been dropped on a defenceless civilian
population. He was a co-founder of Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, and was both its director and
associate director for many years. After his controversial negative testimony
in the Oppenheimer security
hearing convened against his former Los Alamos Laboratory superior, J. Robert Oppenheimer,
Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued,
however, to find support from the U.S. government and military research
establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and
a vigorous nuclear testing program.
In his later years, Teller became especially known for his advocacy of
controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems,
including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in what was called Project Chariot, and Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense
Initiative. Teller's contributions to science garnered him numerous
awards, including the Enrico Fermi Award and Albert Einstein Award. He
died on September 9, 2003, in Stanford, California, at
95.
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