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cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0><font size=+3 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Edward Teller</b></font><p><img src="edwardteller.jpg" height=343 width=258 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Edward Teller"><b>AKA</b> Teller Ede<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/532/000106214/" class=proflink>15-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/907/000105592/" class=proflink>1908</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/927/000069720/" class=proflink>Budapest, Hungary</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/139/000106818/" class=proflink>9-Sep</a>-<a href="/lists/513/000106195/" class=proflink>2003</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/727/000069520/" class=proflink>Stanford, CA</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> unspecified<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Religion:</b> <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a><br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/629/000096341/" class=proflink>Physicist</a><br><b>Party Affiliation:</b> Republican<p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Father of the Hydrogen Bomb<p><b>Father:</b> Max Teller (attorney)<br><b>Mother:</b> Ilona Deutsch Teller (pianist)<br><b>Wife:</b> Augusta Maria Harkanyi (m. 26-Feb-1934)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Susan Wendy Teller (b. 31-Aug-1946, Los Alamos, NM)<br><b>Son:</b> Paul Teller<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/665/000079428/">BS Chemical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (1928)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/632/000071419/">PhD Physics, University of Leipzig (1930)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/634/000071421/">University of Göttingen</a><br><p> <a href="/gov/404/000052248/">Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</a> <br> <a href="/group/738/000055573/">Manhattan Project</a> <br> <a href="/org/863/000133464/">Academy of Achievement</a> (1961)<br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> <br> <a href="/org/259/000164764/">Argonne National Laboratory</a> 1946-<br> <a href="/org/766/000051613/">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> <br> <a href="/org/571/000049424/">Center for Security Policy</a> <br> <a href="/org/700/000051547/">Council for National Policy</a> <br> <a href="/org/083/000167579/">George W. Bush for President</a> <br> <a href="/org/218/000165720/">International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science</a> <br> <a href="/org/952/000162466/">Western Goals Foundation</a> <br> <a href="/honors/279/000099979/">Enrico Fermi Award</a> 1962<br> <a href="/honors/114/000104799/">Ig Nobel Prize</a> Peace (1991)<br> <a href="/honors/482/000045347/">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> 23-Jul-2003<br> <a href="/honors/636/000042510/">National Medal of Science</a> <br> <a href="/event/582/000051429/">Naturalized US Citizen</a> 1941<br> <a href="/event/170/000087906/">Heart Attack</a> 8-May-1979<br> <a href="/event/911/000093632/">Pied</a> Bavarian cream, UCLA (6-Feb-1980)<br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/952/000124580/">Bell's Palsy</a>, <a href="/lists/791/000064599/">Amputee</a><br> <p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/668/000120308/">Trinity and Beyond (29-Sep-1995)</a> · Himself<br> <a href="/films/856/000088592/">Hiroshima (6-Aug-1995)</a> · Himself<br><p> <b>Rotten Library Page:</b><br><a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/edward-teller/">Edward Teller</a><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=26603"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=26603">Edward Teller</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=26603" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>