Edward Teller Facts
Edward Teller Facts
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| Teller was born in Budapest into a Jewish family. |
| He reportedly did not speak at an early age but developed a fascination with numbers. |
| He emigrated to Germany in 1926 due to discrimination and the revolutions in Hungary. |
| While he was a young student in Munich his right foot was severed in a street car accident which necessitated a prosthetic foot and left him with a pronounced limp. |
| Teller graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and received a PhD in physics at the University of Leipzig. |
| His PhD dissertation was one of the first accurate quantum mechanical reports of the hydrogen molecular ion. |
| He spent a summer in Rome with the physicist, Enrico Fermi which strengthened his interest in nuclear physics. |
| In 1933 the International Rescue Committee helped him escape from Germany to England and then to Denmark where he worked under Niels Bohr. |
| In 1935 he was invited to become a Professor Physics at George Washington University and he became a U.S.citizen in 1941. |
| In 1952 Teller was invited to be part of the summer planning project for the Manhattan Project. |
| In June of 1942 Teller joined the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago along with Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi. |
| In April 1943 he moved to Los Alamos laboratory to work with Robert Oppenheimer and others in designing an atomic bomb. |
| In 1945 he became one of the few scientists to actually watch the first test detonation in July 1945. |
| Teller irritated many of his fellow scientists by taking full credit for what were collaborative efforts. |
| In 1955 he was encouraged by Fermi to write an article titled "The Work of Many People" for Science magazine. |
| Unfortunately in his memoirs he retracted the article and claimed full credit for the invention of the hydrogen bomb. |
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