Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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July 1952: After another hot Washington struggle, a special laboratory for Teller was established at Livermore, Calif...
...delay. After Truman's order, Oppenheimer never publicly opposed the H-bomb. But other scientists did. Twelve top physicists signed a statement that said: "We believe that no nation has the right to use such a bomb, no matter how righteous its cause." It is a fact that Teller had great difficulty recruiting scientists in the year after the President's order...
...book presents Teller as the father of the hydrogen bomb. He broke the almost solid front of scientists who were opposing an all-out effort in the fall of 1949; in 1951 he had the "flash of genius" without which the bomb could not have been made...
...problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer), that in six months (instead of several lifetimes) made the H-bomb calculations derived from the equations of his fellow Hungarian, Dr. Edward Teller...
Doodlers & Dreamers. Designing a new car involves an arm-long set of finely balanced equations, and enough unknowns to baffle even the most imaginative fortune teller. In its styling section, adjacent to the head office in Detroit, G.M. has a staff of 675 trying to find the answers. Some of them work in the "future" studio, a place where stylists can doodle their fondest dreams on paper, even though there is no chance of their coming true. With the practical dreamers, engineers work side by side to make sure their ideas can be translated into production. To spot any engineering...