Edward Teller

Biography

Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who made significant contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy, and surface physics. He is known for his work on the hydrogen bomb and the Teller-Ulam design, and was a key figure in the Manhattan Project and the development of the first atomic bomb. Teller co-founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and made notable contributions to the development of density functional theory.