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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-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. 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 5,180,998 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Edward Teller is the 97th most popular physicist (down from 84th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 28th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 97 out of 717. Before him are Arthur Compton, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Dennis Gabor, James Franck, Manne Siegbahn, and William Henry Bragg. After him are Walther Bothe, C. V. Raman, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Alfred Kastler, and Joseph von Fraunhofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Edward Teller ranks 21. Before him are Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bette Davis, Simon Wiesenthal, Geli Raubal, Anna Magnani, and John Bardeen. After him are Mika Waltari, Amon Göth, David Oistrakh, David Lean, Nelson Rockefeller, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Among people deceased in 2003, Edward Teller ranks 13. Before him are Robert K. Merton, Alija Izetbegović, Heydar Aliyev, Barry White, Maurice Gibb, and Nina Simone. After him are Ilya Prigogine, Edward Said, Soong Mei-ling, Robert Kardashian, Otto Günsche, and Gianni Agnelli.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Edward Teller ranks 34 out of 866. Before him are Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), László Bíró (1899), Sándor Kocsis (1929), Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), and Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409). After him are Zoltán Kodály (1882), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Viktor Orbán (1963), László Kubala (1927), and Orestes (420).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Edward Teller ranks 3. Before him are Eugene Wigner (1902) and Dennis Gabor (1900). After him are Leo Szilard (1898), Georg von Békésy (1899), Arpad Elo (1903), Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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