do grupo dos Cientistas dos Estados Unidos a serem escolhidos para Pessoa do Ano da revista americana Time. Menos de dois meses antes do seu falecimento foi agraciado com a Medalha Presidencial da Liberdade, pelo Presidente George W. Bush.Apesar de ter saido da Hungria ha varias decadas, Teller nunca esqueceu a sua heranca cultural nem a sua lingua. Apos a queda do comunismo, ele visitou varias vezes o seu pais natal e acompanhou com atencao as mudancas politicas ali em andamento.Ligacoes externasEdward Tellers Scientific Life (em ingles) Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju (Telugu: ) (born August 21, 1952) is an Indian chemist who works in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Till recently he was in the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering. Desiraju has played a major role in the development of crystal engineering over the last two decades. He, among others, has also been responsible in recent times for the acceptance of the theme of weak hydrogen bonding in structural and supramolecular chemistry. His books on crystal engineering (1989)[1] and on the weak hydrogen bond in structural chemistry and biology (1999)[2] are especially notable. He is one of the most highly cited Indian chemists and has been recognised by a number of awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis and the TWAS award in Chemistry. [1]BiographyGautam Desiraju was born 21 August 1952 in Chennai, India, formerly Madras. Desiraju obtained his B.Sc. (1972) from St. Xavier's College, Bombay and Ph.D. (1976) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked under the supervision of David Y. Curtin and Iain C. Paul. He worked between 1976 and 1978 in the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY. From 1978 to 1979 he was a research fellow in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He joined the University of Hyderabad in 1979 as a lecturer and was promoted as reader in 1984 and professor in 1990. He spent a year (19881989) in the CR&D department of DuPont in Wilmington as a visiting scientist. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Angewandte Chemie. He has been closely associated with the two journals devoted to the subject of crystal engineering, namely Crystal Growth and Design and CrystEngComm since their inception. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Union of Crystallography[2] and was a co-editor of Acta Crystallographica between 1994 and 2008. He served as a member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy between 2005 and 2008. He was the chair of the first Gordon Research Conference in Crystal Engineering, which was held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire in 2010. Major research contributionsDesiraju's major contribution to the subject of crystal engineering has been the development of the concept of the supramolecular synthon, which is a small sub-structural unit that is an adequate enough representation of the entire crystal structure of a molecular solid. The major problem in crystal engineering is that the prediction