Energy and Conflict (Signed)

Blumberg, Stanley A., Teller, Edward; Owens; Gwinn

Putnam Adult, 1976

Inscribed by Edward Teller on front end page. Also signed by Gwinn Owens and Stanley A. Blumberg. Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xvii, 492 p., ill., 23 cm. *Autographed by authors.* 

"Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the production of the first atomic bomb and the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb. He is also known for his extraordinary contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, surface physics and spectroscopy. Teller moved to America in 1935 accepting the position of professor of physics at the George Washington University. His work here included predicting the Jahn-Teller Effect which distorts molecules in certain situations. He also contributed to surface physics and chemistry with the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller adsorption isotherm equation. Teller became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1941 and became a part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, working on the first atomic bomb with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Teller was also interested creating a fusion weapon (hydrogen bomb) and pressed as hard as he could for its development. In 1946, Teller left Los Alamos to work at the University of Chicago, returning in 1950 when work on developing a hydrogen bomb was finally approved. Teller worked on the hydrogen bomb project, helping devise the Teller-Ulam two stage thermonuclear bomb design. The H-bomb was successfully tested in the Pacific in 1952. In 1952 Teller accepted the position of professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he kept until 1960.