Teller, Edward
Teller, Edward (1908––2003), nuclear physicist.The Hungarian‐born physicist earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in Germany after academic study and research in Munich and Leipzig. In Germany during the Weimar years, Teller taught at the University of Göttingen while studying atomic physics under Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. In 1935, he went to the United States to teach at George Washington University.
Teller worked with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago to create the first self‐sustaining nuclear chain reaction. In 1943, he was recruited to work with J. Robert Oppenheimer on the fission bomb at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. While at Los Alamos, Teller began his own research on the feasibility of a thermonuclear or hydrogen fusion bomb. The USSR's explosion of an atomic bomb in 1949...
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