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The native form of this personal name is Teller Ede. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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Edward Teller
Teller Ede
Teller in 1958
Born	(1908-01-15)January 15, 1908 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	September 9, 2003(2003-09-09) (aged 95) Stanford, California, US
Citizenship	Hungary United States (March 6, 1941)
Alma mater	University of Karlsruhe (BS) University of Munich University of Leipzig (PhD)
Known for	Hydrogen bomb Teller\u2013Ulam design Ashkin\u2013Teller model Brunauer\u2013Emmett\u2013Teller theory Gamow\u2013Teller transition Inglis\u2013Teller equation Jahn\u2013Teller effect Lyddane\u2013Sachs\u2013Teller relation P\u00f6schl\u2013Teller potential Renner\u2013Teller effect Metropolis\u2013Hastings algorithm
Spouse	\n Augusta Maria Harkanyi \n (m. 1934; died 2000)
Children	2
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003) National Medal of Science (1982) Eringen Medal (1980) Harvey Prize (1975) Enrico Fermi Award (1962) Albert Einstein Award (1958)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics (theoretical)
Institutions	George Washington University University of G\u00f6ttingen Bohr Institute University College London Manhattan Project University of Chicago Florida Institute of Technology University of California, Davis University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Hoover Institution
Thesis	\u00dcber das Wasserstoffmolek\u00fclion (1930)
Doctoral advisor	Werner Heisenberg
Doctoral students	Laszlo Tisza (1932) Charles Critchfield (1939) Marvin L. Goldberger (1948) Boris Jacobsohn (1947) Yang Chen-Ning (1949) Lincoln Wolfenstein (1949) Marshall Rosenbluth (1949) Hans-Peter D\u00fcrr (1956)
Other notable students	Jack Steinberger
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Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 \u2013 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\u2013Ulam design based on Stanis\u0142aw Ulam's design. \n

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 \u00e9migr\u00e9s. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (in particular the Jahn\u2013Teller and Renner\u2013Teller effects), and surface physics. His extension of Enrico Fermi's theory of beta decay, in the form of Gamow\u2013Teller transitions, provided an important stepping stone in its application, while the Jahn\u2013Teller effect and the Brunauer\u2013Emmett\u2013Teller (BET) theory have retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry.^[1]\n

Teller made contributions to Thomas\u2013Fermi theory, the precursor of density functional theory, a standard modern tool in the quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules. In 1953, with Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and Augusta Teller, Teller co-authored a paper that is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics and the Markov chain Monte Carlo literature in Bayesian statistics.^[2] Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb. He made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons, but ultimately fusion bombs only appeared after World War II. He co-founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and was its director or associate director. After his controversial negative testimony in the Oppenheimer security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos Laboratory superior, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific community ostracized Teller.\n

Teller continued to find support from the US government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. In his later years, he advocated controversial technological solutions to military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using a thermonuclear explosive in what was called Project Chariot, and Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Teller was a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award and the Albert Einstein Award. He died on September 9, 2003, in Stanford, California, at 95.\n

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2001\u2013present	\n Rudolph Giuliani (2001) \n The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper / Coleen Rowley / Sherron Watkins (2002) \n The American Soldier (2003) \n George W. Bush (2004) \n The Good Samaritans: Bono / Bill Gates / Melinda Gates (2005) \n You (2006) \n Vladimir Putin (2007) \n Barack Obama (2008) \n Ben Bernanke (2009) \n Mark Zuckerberg (2010) \n The Protester (2011) \n Barack Obama (2012) \n Pope Francis (2013) \n Ebola Fighters: Dr. Jerry Brown / Dr. Kent Brantly / Ella Watson-Stryker / Foday Gollah / Salome Karwah (2014) \n Angela Merkel (2015) \n Donald Trump (2016) \n The Silence Breakers (2017) \n The Guardians: Jamal Khashoggi / Maria Ressa / Wa Lone / Kyaw Soe Oo / Staff of The Capital (2018) \n Greta Thunberg (2019) \n Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (2020) \n Elon Musk (2021) \n Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Spirit of Ukraine (2022) \n Taylor Swift (2023) \n Donald Trump (2024) \n

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Early life and work

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15 January, 1908