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Edward Teller Passes Away At 95

Posted by simoniker on from the no-more-strange-love dept.

Lord Prox writes "Edward Teller, one of the 20th Century's greats in physics, died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Stanford. He was 95." Newsforge.com also has one of the final interviews with Teller, who was "a principal architect of the hydrogen bomb, [and] passionate advocate of nuclear power and antimissile defense."

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  1. Re:Wow he was old by Capsaicin · · Score: 4, Funny
    95 is an impressively long time for a human being to live. I would bet that all the nuclear materials Teller worked with somehow mutated him into having extraordinary longevity.

    Leni Riefenstahl died the same (previous?) day aged 101! Maybe making Nazi propaganda movies is the secret to longevity?

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  2. Re:Hungary is EVIL I tells ya! by Charles+Dodgeson · · Score: 4, Funny
    There is a story that at one of the meetings at Los Alamos, Feynman was absent and Fermi had to leave the room for some reason. At this point one of the remaining physicists in the room said:
    Jol van, most maygarul folytathatunk.
    (Fine, now we can continue in Hungarian.)
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  3. Re:Thank you Teller. by Nept · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except Australia, they'll just get radioactive fallout and nuclear winter

    then we'll have to live on the beach

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  4. Re:Wow he was old by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but what people are forgetting is that this was really just his half life....

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  5. "Perils of Modern Living" by E-prospero · · Score: 4, Funny

    An old, but good poem, originally published in the New Yorker, that makes mention of Dr Teller. RIP.
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    Perils of Modern Living - Harold P. Furth

    Well up above the tropostrata
    There is a region stark and stellar
    Where, on a streak of anti-matter
    Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.

    Remote from Fusion's origin,
    He lived unguessed and unawares
    With all his antikith and kin,
    And kept macassars[1] on his chairs.

    One morning, idling by the sea,
    He spied a tin of monstrous girth
    That bore three letters: A. E. C.[2]
    Out stepped a visitor from Earth.

    Then, shouting gladly o'er the sands,
    Met two who in their alien ways
    Were like as gentils. Their right hands
    Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

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    [1]. Macassar oil was a popular hair dressing in the 19th century, named after the Indonesian port where the oil purportedly came from. An "antimacassar" is the decorative fabric used on chairs or sofas to protect the upholstery.

    [2]. AEC=Atomic Energy Commission, now replaced by DOE=Department of Energy. The AEC (like the DOE today) funded most of the National Laboratories, including Teller's Livermore Laboratory.

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  6. Re:I met him once... by refactored · · Score: 4, Funny
    So long as they go up,
    who cares where they come down,
    that's not my department
    says Werner von Braun.
    by Tom Lehrer
  7. Re:Thank you Teller. by secolactico · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you Mr Teller.

    Likewise over here. I just hope your long time partner Penn Jillette is able to carry on with your work.

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