Edward Teller

Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9 2003) was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist of Jewish descent. He was known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."

Further reading

Written by Teller

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• Our Nuclear Future; Facts, Dangers, and Opportunities (1958)
• Basic Concepts of Physics (1960)
• The Legacy of Hiroshima (1975)
• Energy from Heaven and Earth (1979)
• The Pursuit of Simplicity (1980)
• Better a Shield Than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology (1987)
• Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics (1991)
• Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (2001)

Books about Teller

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• William J. Broad, Teller?s war: the top-secret story behind the Star Wars deception (Simon & Schuster, 1992).
• Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the bomb: the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence (Henry Holt, 2002).
• Peter Goodchild, Edward Teller: the real Dr. Strangelove (Harvard University Press, 2005).