Memoirs

Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this memoir reveals the man behind the headlines. He chronicles the people and events that shaped him as a scientist and describes his relationships with some of the century's greatest minds.

Autorentext
Edward Teller is one of the most celebrated and controversial physicists alive today. Through his work at Los Alamos and his development of the hydrogen bomb, he helped usher in the atomic age. He is currently Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and continues as a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Judith Shoolery is a former science teacher who has worked as a writer and editor on a variety of publications, most recently as a book editor at the Hoover Institution. Now retired, she and her husband live in Half Moon Bay, California.

Klappentext
The story of Edward Teller is the story of the 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1908, Teller witnessed the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism, two world wars, the McCarthy era, and the changing face of big science. A brilliant and controversial figure, Teller brings to these events a perspective that is at once surprising and insightful.

Zusammenfassung
The fascinating recollections of one of the most controversial scientists of the nuclear age

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