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Marshall N. Rosenbluth ’46, a leading physicist in the field of nuclear fusion and plasmas who contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb, died on Sunday from pancreatic cancer...
...Rosenbluth returned to UCSD where he worked as a professor until 1993. He remained at the university as a professor emeritus and research physicist until his death...
Despite the accolades, Rosenbluth was modest about his accomplishments. His self-authored faculty profile on the UCSD website says simply, “I am a theoretical plasma physicist with a particular interest in the physics of magnetic confinement fusion devices...
EDWARD TELLER had a longer and more intimate acquaintance with nuclear weapons than any man in history. During World War II, the brilliant, Hungarian-born physicist, fearful that Hitler was building an A-bomb, was among those who got Albert Einstein to nudge F.D.R. into starting what became the Manhattan Project. After the war, Teller pushed for the "super"--the H-bomb. The rabid anticommunist became a scientific pariah in the 1950s for implying that his former boss, Manhattan Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a security risk. Teller was considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist...
...been devastated by U.S. sanctions preventing the country from launching commercial satellites that use American components. And last year, the U.S. refused to grant visas to some Chinese scientists invited to participate in the World Space Congress in Houston, even though several were slated to present papers there. Physicist Sun Huixian was so angry about the American cold shoulder that he ordered his staff to use European equipment instead. A scientist who designs data-transmission systems for Shenzhou's scientific experiments, Sun says the change in suppliers has "made our work harder, but we're afraid...