If there ever was a misnomer, it is ‘exact science’. Science has always been full of mistakes; they require a genius to correct them. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
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Birth: | 15th January, 1908 |
Death: | 9th September, 2003 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Physicist |
Edward Teller was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he claimed he did not care for the title. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy and surface physics. He graduated in chemical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, and received his Ph.D. in physics under Werner Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig. Concurrently he was professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1953 to 1960 and was professor-at-large there until 1970.
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