Edward Teller ``Father of the H-Bomb'' dies at age 95

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/9/03 | AP

[MikalM]

Edward Teller, the man who played a key role in U.S. defense and energy policies for more than half a century and was dubbed the "Father of the H-bomb" for his enthusiastic pursuit of the powerful weapon, died Tuesday, a spokesman for Lawrence Livermore Laboratory confirmed. He was 95.

[Frank_2001]

RIP!

[El Gato]

95 huh? I guess working around all that nuclear stuff didn't shorten his life much.

[El Gato]

Today, 95-year-old physicist Edward Teller will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom,

I'll bet that got a bunch leftist pinko peacenik knickers all in knots. Not to memtion causing lots of foaming at the mouth and probably a bit of diarrea of the mouth as well. :)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the ping PhilDragoo. Just heard the news report a little while ago.

[Frank_2001]

Sounds like a great experience...of course at today's lefty-dominated universities they'd have called security and hustled him off campus, pronto!;)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Teller's Home Page

[Cultural Jihad]

May God be merciful and lift Edward Teller up to the Light of His countenance, and may perpetual Light shine upon him.

[RadioAstronomer]

Thank you my friend.

[RightWingAtheist]

Very sad news indeed. Teller, like his fellow Hungarian expatriates Eugene Wigner and John Von Neumann, was not just a great scientist, but a great champion of human freedom and dignity. Even though the scientific community at large may have disagreed with Teller's politics, no one can deny his genius as a theorist, an administrator, and perhaps most importantly, as a teacher. I know that at least two of his students, Chen Ning Yang and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, won (well-deserved) Nobel Prizes. Are there any other Nobellists he taught?

[NormsRevenge]

Academy of Achievement

Edward Teller, Ph.D.
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb

Inducted into the Academy in 1961

"I believe that there are periods in the intellectual development of the world which are particularly great. They are confined to periods not very long and to places not very extensive. That, in modern science, was something that occurred in central Europe."

What occurred in central Europe in the first decades of this century was a revolution in man's understanding of the universe. The breakthrough in physics is associated with a few extraordinary minds: Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg. One who knew and worked with them and was at the very heart of this ferment was Edward Teller.

Under Heisenberg at Leipzig, he helped lay the foundation of nuclear physics. His research with Enrico Fermi at Chicago, led to the first controlled nuclear reaction. At Los Alamos with Oppenheimer, Teller assisted the development of the first atomic bomb. At the height of the Cold War, he led the drive to develop the hydrogen bomb and waged a tireless struggle to establish the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory for thermonuclear research.

In his ninth decade, he remains an ardent proponent of nuclear fusion and strategic missile defense. As one of the great pioneers of modern physics, and as a strenuous advocate for America's national security, Edward Teller has made his mark on our times in a way that few can equal. Although many of his colleagues found him abrasive and contentious, his old friend, the Nobel Prize-winner Eugene Wigner called him "one of the most thoughtful statesmen of science."

[Cacique]

Another icon of my growing up youth gone. It is indicative that we are growing older and our turn is not far off. RIP Dr. Teller.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks Phil. May he rest in peace.

[Petronski]

Godspeed, good man.

[Incorrigible]

Older related thread when he was featured in IEEE's Spectrum Magazine.

A Scientific Warrior [Edward Teller, key developer of H-Bomb]
 

 

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BTTT

[Bernard Marx]

A great man and a great patriot. Thank you and R.I.P.

[Bernard Marx]

A great man and a great patriot. Thank you and R.I.P.

[LibWhacker]

Oh, no! . . . He was a very, very great man. I was always astounded at the old man's clarity of thought (which he apparently enjoyed right up to the end). Rest in peace, Edward Teller.

[Carry_Okie]

Wow.

God rest you Edward Teller, a scientist, a patriot, and a humanitarian.