Edward Teller
Channel: Ananas Science
Date: 24/02/2017

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Edward Teller (January 15, 1908– September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who was born in Hungary, and is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he claimed he did not care for the title. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (in particular, the Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects) and surface physics. His extension of Enrico Fermi's theory of beta decay, in the form of Gamow–Teller transitions, provided an important stepping stone in its application, while the Jahn–Teller effect and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory have retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry. Teller also made contributions to Thomas–Fermi theory, the precursor of density functional theory, a standard modern tool in the quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules. In 1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and Augusta Teller, Teller co-authored a paper which is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
0.  Introduction (00:00:00)
1.  Early life and work (00:02:38)
2.  Manhattan Project (00:07:10)
............2.1.  Los Alamos Laboratory (00:07:12)
............2.2.  Decision to drop the bombs (00:11:44)
3.  Hydrogen bomb (00:14:03)
4.  Oppenheimer controversy (00:23:39)
5.  US Government work and political advocacy (00:28:16)
6.  Global climate change (00:31:33)
7.  Operation Plowshare and Project Chariot (00:32:56)
8.  Nuclear technology and Israel (00:34:50)
9.  Three Mile Island (00:37:05)
10.  Strategic Defense Initiative (00:37:49)
11.  Asteroid impact avoidance (00:39:35)
12.  Death and legacy (00:40:08)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller
Date: 02/23/2017

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