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Title: Edward Teller Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1930-2003
Collection Number: 76074
Creator: Teller, Edward, 1908-
Physical Description:
632 manuscript boxes, 20 oversize boxes, 1 cubic foot box, 1 card file box, 1 oversize folder, 2 album boxes, 11 slide boxes,
6 envelopes, 5 motion picture film reels, 6 phonorecords, digital files.
(265 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, studies, memoranda, printed matter,
photographs, motion picture film, video tapes, sound recordings, and memorabilia,
relating to chemical, molecular and nuclear physics; development of new energy resources;
national energy research planning; space exploration; and national and international
security issues, including nuclear weapons and arms control.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to
see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
[Identification of item], Edward Teller Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1976.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Nuclear energy.
Nuclear weapons.
Energy policy--United States.
Physics.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--Defenses.
Arms control.
Space sciences.
Video tapes.
Phonotapes.
Phonorecords.
Slides (Photography)
Moving-pictures.
| 15 January 1908 | Born, Budapest, Hungary |
| 1926-1928 | Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1928 | Student, University of Munich, Germany |
| 1929-1931 | Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany |
| 1930 | Ph.D., University of Leipzig |
| 1931-1933 | Research associate, Guttingen, Germany |
| 1934 | Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi |
| Rockefeller fellow, Copenhagen, Netherlands | |
| 1934-1935 | Lecturer, University of London, United Kingdom |
| 1935-1941 | Professor of physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1941 | Naturalized, Washington, D.C. |
| 1941-1942 | Professor of physics, Columbia University, New York City |
| 1942-1943 | Physicist, University of Chicago, Illinois |
| 1942-1946 | Physicist, Manhattan Engineer District of Columbia |
| 1943-1946 | Physicist, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| 1946-1952 | Professor of physics, University of Chicago |
| 1949 | Author (with Francis Owen Rice), The Structure of Matter |
| 1949-1952 | Assistant director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory |
| 1952-1953 | Consultant, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California |
| 1953-1960 | Professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1954-1958, 1960-1975 | Associate director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory |
| 1958 | Author (with Albert L. Latter), Our Nuclear Future |
| 1958-1960 | Director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory |
| 1960-1970 | Professor of physics-at-large, University of California |
| 1962 | Author (with Allen Brown), The Legacy of Hiroshima |
| 1963-1966 | Professor emeritus and chairman, Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis and Livermore |
| 1968 | Author (with Gerald W. Johnson, Wilson K. Talley, and Gary H. Higgins), The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives |
| 1969 | Author (with Segre, Kaplan, and Schiff), Great Men of Physics |
| 1970 | Author, General Remarks on Electronic Structure and the Hydrogen Molecular Ion, and General Theory of Electron Structure |
| 1970-1975 | University professor, University of California |
| 1972 | Author, The Miracle of Freedom |
| 1975 | Author, Energy: A Plan for Action |
| 1975- | University professor emeritus, University of California |
| Director emeritus and consultant, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory | |
| Senior research fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California | |
| 1977 | Author, Nuclear Energy in the Developing World |
| 1979 | Author, Energy from Heaven and Earth |
| 1980 | Author, The Pursuit of Simplicity |
| 1987 | Author, Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology |
| 1989 | Presidential Citizens Medal, |
| 1991 | Author, Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics |
| 1998 | Awarded a Magyarsag Hirneveert Dij, the highest official Hungarian government award |
| 2001 | Author, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics |
| 2002 | Department of Energy Gold Award |
| July 2003 | Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 9 September 2003 | Died at his home on Stanford campus |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, studies, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, video
tapes, sound recordings, and memorabilia, relating to chemical, molecular and nuclear physics; development of new energy resources;
national energy research planning; space exploration; and national and international security issues, including nuclear weapons
and arms control.