Edward Teller, 95, 'Father of Hydrogen Bomb,' Dies at Stanford University.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 10, 2003 | Copyright information

By Dan Stober, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 10--Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb," a Hungarian-born physicist who tirelessly promoted the development of nuclear weapons for half a century, died Tuesday at his home on the campus of Stanford University. He was 95 and had been in declining health. He had suffered a stroke a few days earlier.

He was the driving force behind the establishment of the Bay Area's nuclear weapons design lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Born in Budapest in 1908, Teller ...

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