Edward Teller (redirected from Ede Teller)

Teller, Edward 

Born Jan. 15, 1908, in Budapest. American physicist.

Teller studied at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, under A. Sommerfeld at the University of Munich, and under W. Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig. From 1929 to 1935 he did research and lectured in Leipzig, Göttingen, Copenhagen, and London. From 1935 to 1941 he was a professor at George Washington University in Washington. Beginning in 1941, Teller took part in the development of the atomic bomb at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. From 1946 to 1952 he was a professor at the University of Chicago. From 1949 to 1952 he was assistant director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he helped develop the hydrogen bomb. In 1953 he became a professor at the University of California.

Teller’s main works between 1931 and 1936 dealt with quantum mechanics and chemical bonds. Beginning in 1936, his research centered on nuclear physics. Together with G. Gamow, Teller formulated a selection rule for beta decay; he also made a substantial contribution to the theory of nuclear interactions. Other research by Teller has dealt with cosmology, the theory of stellar interiors, the problem of the origin of cosmic rays, and the physics of high energy densities.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Nashe iadernoe budushchee. Moscow, 1958. (With A. L. Latter.)
Fizika vysokikh plotnostei energii. Moscow, 1974. (With others.)

I. D. ROZHANSKII