Edward Teller
- Born: January 15, 1908 (Budapest, Hungary)
- Died: September 9, 2003 (Palo Alto, California)
Education
- 1930: PhD, University of Leipzig (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1929–1931: University of Leipzig, Research Associate
- 1931–1933: University of Göttingen, Research Associate
- 1933–1934: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Rockefeller Fellow
- 1934–1934: London City College, Lecturer
- 1935–1941: George Washington University, Professor of Physics
- 1941–1942: Columbia University, Researcher
- 1942–1943: Manhattan Project, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Researcher
- 1943–1944: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Leader, Hydrodynamics of Implosion and Super Theory Group
- 1944–1946: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Leader, General and Super Theory Group
- 1946–1952: University of Chicago, Professor of Physics
- 1949–1952: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Assistant Director
- 1952–1953: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Consultant
- 1953–1975: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
- 1954–1958: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Associate Director
- 1958–1960: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Director
- 1960–1975: Stanford University, Professor, Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace
- 1975–2003: Stanford University, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace
Other Positions
- 1975–2003: University of California, Berkeley, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1956–1958: Member, General Advisory Committee, United States Atomic Energy Commission
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1948: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1962: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Enrico Fermi Award
- 1982: National Medal of Science
Archival Resources
Stanford University, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1983: American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Freeman J. Dyson, "Edward Teller: 1908-2003", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Herbert F. York, The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976)
Stanley A. Blumberg and Gwinn Owens, Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller (New York: Putnam, 1976)
Stanley A. Blumberg and Louis G. Panos, Edward Teller, Giant of the Golden Age of Physics: A Biography (New York: Scribner's, 1990)
William J. Broad, Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story behind the Star Wars Deception (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992)
Dan O'Neill, The Firecracker Boys (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995)
Edward Teller, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (New York: Scribner's, 2001)
Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2002)
Peter Goodchild, Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)
Scott Kirsch, Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005)
István Hargittai, The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
István Hargittai, Judging Edward Teller: A Closer Look at One of the Most Influential Scientists of the Twentieth Century (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010)
Peter Galison and Barton Bernstein, "In Any Light: Scientists and the Decision to Build the Superbomb," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 19 (1989): 267-347
Barton J. Bernstein, "From the A-Bomb to Star Wars: Edward Teller's History," Technology and Culture 31 (1990): 846-861
Scott Kirsch and Susan W. S. Millar, "Earth-Moving as the 'Measure of Man': Edward Teller, Geographical Engineering, and the Matter of Progress," Social Text 16 (1998): 101-134
Gennady Gorelik, "The Paternity of H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives," Physics in Perspective 11 (2009): 169-197
