Edward Teller
Edward Teller · Science & Medicine
Hydrogen Bomb
1908, Budapest, Hungary — 2003, Stanford, California, United States
Hungary · Germany · United States
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Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist widely known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb' for his central role in developing thermonuclear weapons, with the first US test in 1952. Born into a Jewish family in Budapest, he fled rising antisemitism in Europe and emigrated to the United States.
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