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Edward Teller (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist commonly known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Along with Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller was a key member of the Manhattan Project which resulted in the production the first atomic bomb.

History
Though born to a fairly well-off Jewish family in Hungary, Teller acquired the bulk of his education in Weimar-era Germany. After completing a doctoral thesis on the hydrogen molecular ion, he earned a PhD in physical chemistry in 1930. In 1935 he accepted a teaching position at George Washington University and relocated to the United States.