Teller, Edward (1908-2003), an American physicist, became known as the father of the hydrogen bomb. His work in nuclear physics helped lead to the development of the H-bomb in 1952.
Teller was born on Jan. 15, 1908, in Budapest, Hungary. He earned a doctor’s degree from the University of Leipzig in Germany. Teller went to the United States in 1935. During World War II (1939-1945), he joined the effort to develop a nuclear weapon. He worked at the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was built. In 1952, he helped found what is now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a facility at Livermore, California, dedicated mainly to designing nuclear weapons. Teller was associate director there from 1954 to 1958 and from 1960 to 1975 and director from 1958 to 1960. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1953 to 1975. Teller died on Sept. 9, 2003.
See also Nuclear weapon.
