Edward Teller
Edward Teller is known for being the principle designer of the hydrogen bomb. Edward was born in Budapest on January 15, 1908. Teller was from a family of well-to-do Hungarian Jews. ... Next, Teller went to Munich and Leipzig to earn a Ph. ... Unfortunately, while Teller was is Munich, he fell under a moving streetcar and lost his right foot; it was replaced with a synthetic one. Edward studied under Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and then taught at the University of Gottingen from 1931-33. In 1935 Teller and his bride, Augusta Harkanyi, came to the United States, where he taught at the George Washington University, Washington D. ... Next, Teller decided to dedicate his time to developing nuclear weapons. In 1941 Teller had taken out U. ... Teller then accepted an invitation from the University of California at Berkeley to work on the theoretical studies on the atom bomb with J. ... In 1943, when Oppenheimer set up the secret Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, Teller was among the first men recruited. The first research on thermonuclear weapons started from a discussion in September 1941 between Fermi and Teller. ... ) Teller undertook to analyze the thermonuclear processes in some detail and presented his findings to a group of theoretical physicists converted by Oppenheimer in Berkeley in the summer of 1942. ... ) Teller digressed more and more from the mainline of research to continue his own inquiries into a potentially much more powerful thermonuclear hydrogen-fusion bomb. At the end of WWII, Teller accepted a position with the Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago but was a consultant for extended periods of time at Los Alamos. ... Teller in response suggested that radiation, rather than mechanical shock, from the atomic bomb explosion to used to compress and ignite the thermonuclear second core. Teller and Ulam presented a report containing both alternatives, entitled “On Heterocatalytic Detonations I. ... ” A second report, dated April 4, by Teller, included some extensive calculations by Frederic de Hoffmann and elaborated on how a thermonuclear bomb could be constructed.