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Edward Teller (1908 - )
Edward Teller was born in Budapest and was educated at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the University of Munich, and at the University of Leipzig. In 1941 he became a U.S. citizen and joined the Manhattan Project. For the next ten years, he worked with physicist Enrico Fermi at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and at Los Alamos, New Mexico. In 1952 he was appointed professor of physics at Berkley, and he was the main architect of the hydrogen bomb. |