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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 based on Stanisław Ulam's design.
She and her husband became American citizens on March 6, 1941. The Tellers had two children: Paul (b.1943) and Wendy (b.1946). [1] Mici Teller (right) at the 1962 White House ceremony where Edward Teller received the Fermi Award from President John Kennedy. In April 1943, Mici joined Edward at Los Alamos National Laboratory. There, she worked ...
He said that the "insincerity of the adults", their "lack of respect for the world of the children" [2] were formative experiences of his childhood and youth. His cousin was Edward Teller . [ 3 ] As a youngster growing up in that imperial and cosmopolitan world, and later in France, Dobó learned and spoke four languages: Hungarian, Romanian ...
[7] [8] Once the MANIAC I had been completed at Los Alamos she collaborated with Nicholas Metropolis, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller to develop the first Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, in particular the prototypical Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, in the seminal paper Equation of State Calculations by Fast ...
Other late-talking children who became highly-successful engineers, mathematicians, and scientists include the physicists Richard Feynman [12] and Edward Teller. [13] Neuroscientist Steven Pinker postulates that a certain form of language delay may in fact be associated with exceptional and innate-analytical prowess in some individuals. [14]
Hans Albrecht Bethe (/ ˈ b ɛ θ ə /; German: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ⓘ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was born in Albany, New York, on 17 August 1896, [2] the third son of four children of a pastor, Leslie Richard Groves Sr., and his wife Gwen née Griffith. [3] He was half Welsh and half English, with some French Huguenot ancestors who came to the United States in the 17th century. [4]