Edward Teller;Teller(United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)) E. T. S. Walton;Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton;Ernest Walton;Walton(Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995...
Hans Bethe The late German-American physicist(物理学家)Hans Bethe once described himself as “the H-bomb’s midwife(氢弹的半路妻子)”. He left Nazi Germany in 1933 after which he helped develop the first atomic bomb(原子弹) won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his contribution to...
HANS BETHE; NOBEL PHYSICIST, HELPED DEVELOP ATOM BOMBMark Feeney Globe Staff
who harbored high hopes of making milk available to the overall Chinese population, had dedicated herself to the improvement of agricultural machinery and the dairy industry at large. "They made themselves a part of the Chinese revolution," Engst explained. ...
Leo Szilard, the physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction, kept a small photo of a lost love. The amazing story of Gerda Philipsborn.
“James Rutherford, who had got out of bed to check on the storm, was surprised, more so when he heard his son talking to himself softly.” ‘Ernest, what’s up, my boy?’ he called out. ‘I’m counting,’ the boy called back. ...
Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who participated in the production of the first atomic bomb (1945) and who led the development of the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb. Teller was from a family of prospe
atomic-bomb project. During World War II, Wigner worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he helped Enrico Fermi construct the first atomic pile. Wigner also conducted research on quantum mechanics, the theory of the rates of chemical reactions, and nuclear ...
Joan Hinton, 88; physicist chose Mao over atom bombWilliam Grimes
Tamm spent the latter decades of his career at the Lebedev Institute, where he worked on building afusion reactorto controlfusion, using a powerfulmagnetic fieldin a donut-shaped device known as aTokamakreactor. Thomas B. Cochran Robert S. Norris ...