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Edward Teller

1908 - 2003

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Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian and American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design based on Stanisław Ulam's design. Born in Austria-Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, one of the many so-called "Martians", a group of prominent Hungarian scientist émigrés. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (in particular the Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects), and surface physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Teller has received more than 5,792,056 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Edward Teller is the 26th most popular physicist (up from 97th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Physicist.

Edward Teller is most famous for his work on the hydrogen bomb.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edward Teller ranks 26 out of 851. Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Erwin Schrödinger, Georg Ohm, Christiaan Huygens, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, and James Clerk Maxwell. After him are Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, Ibn al-Haytham, Luigi Galvani, and Gustav Kirchhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Edward Teller ranks 8. Before him are Salvador Allende, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Enver Hoxha, Oskar Schindler, and Abraham Maslow. After him are Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Otto Skorzeny, Lev Landau, and Olivier Messiaen. Among people deceased in 2003, Edward Teller ranks 1. After him are Katharine Hepburn, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Bronson, Heydar Aliyev, Idi Amin, Robert K. Merton, Alija Izetbegović, Gregory Peck, Johnny Cash, Barry White, and Maurice Gibb.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Edward Teller ranks 6 out of 1,077. Before him are Martin of Tours (316), Ferenc Puskás (1927), Theodor Herzl (1860), Elizabeth Báthory (1560), and Matthias Corvinus (1443). After him are Rudolf Steiner (1861), Harry Houdini (1874), Stephen I of Hungary (975), John von Neumann (1903), George Soros (1930), and Miklós Horthy (1868).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Edward Teller ranks 1. After him are Eugene Wigner (1902), Leo Szilard (1898), Dennis Gabor (1900), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ferenc Krausz (1962), Arpad Elo (1903), Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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