Register of the Edward Teller Papers, 1930-2003
Register of the Edward Teller Papers, 1930-2003
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
Stanford, California
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- Processed by:
- Linda Bernard, revised Hoover Institution Archives Staff
- Date Completed:
- 1992
- Date Revised:
- 1996, 2009
- Encoded by:
- Hernán Cortés and Elizabeth Konzak
| 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
Container List
Biographical File, 1954-1989
Scope and Content Note
Article on Edward Teller by Robert Coughlan, 1954 July 27. Typescript (intended for publication in Life Magazine)
Guest book of event honoring Edward Teller's 75th birthday
Get-well cards, 1989 April
Subject file - Australia. Correspondence, schedules, and clippings relating to Edward Teller's trip to Australia and visit with Lang Hancock in June 1981
Miscellaneous
Correspondence File, 1954-1987
Scope and Content Note
General
Adams, Lofty A., 1982-1983
Antonelli, John W., Jr., 1977-1978
Applegath, Albert W., 1979-1984
Bandtel, Kenneth C., 1979-1984
Bethe, Hans A., 1954
Billman, Kennteh W., 1979
Black, Edwin F., 1984-1985
Bund Gegen Anpassung, 1989
Courant, R., 1954
Davenport, James F., 1980-1983
Fercsey, John, 1980
Fermi, Laura, 1954
Glanzberg, Al (New Mexican), 1955-1963
Harrison, Donald C., 1986-1987
Hefner, Robert A., III, 1978-1982
Heppenheimer, Thomas A., 1984-1985
Hickey, Jack, 1984
Kearny, Cresson H.
1980
1981-1983
1984-1986
Konnyu, Ernest L., 1985
Libby, Leona M., 1974-1984
Makk, Americo, Eva, and A. B., 1983-1985
Mehnert, Klaus, 1978-1983
Menges, Constantine C., 1980
Metzger, H. Peter, 1978-1980
Mizuki, Mikiso, 1984
Owens, Gwinn, 1975-1983
Rainsbury, Rebecca, 1976
Renz, Peter, 1984
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1975-1979
Seifritz, Walter, 1980-1982
Stewart, G. W., 1954
Strauss, Lewis L., 1954
Symons, William, Jr., 1978
Younger, Evelle J., 1978-1980
Zakkay, Victor, 1980
Speeches and Writings, 1954-1987
Scope and Content Note
"The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb," 1954 October 7. Typescript
Appearance, Youth Wants to Know, National Broadcasting Corporation radio broadcast, 1955 August 7. Printed copy of transcript
Our Nuclear Future (with Albert L. Latter), 1958. Typescript of draft entitled "Atoms on the Loose"
"Outer Space Travel: What Is and Is not Possible?" 1960 October 19. Typed first page of book draft
The Legacy of Hiroshima, 1962. Typescript
Commencement speech, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1962 June 10. Typescript
"Needed Now: Transatlantic ABM Defense and Union," 1963 October 3. Speech, International Movement for Atlantic Union, Washington, D.C. Printed copy
"The Reluctant Revolutionary," 1964. Paul Anthony Brick Lecture, University of Missouri, Columbia. Printed copy
Speech, Group of House Opponents of Proposed Atlantic Union Exploratory Convention, Washington, D.C., 1974 July 31. Typescript
Energy from Heaven and Earth, 1979. Typescript of draft entitled "Adventures of Energy from Cradle to Adolescence"
Energy from Heaven and Earth, 1979. Typescript
"The Energy Crisis: No Contingency Plan," 1980. Interview, World Research, Inc. Printed copy
The Pursuit of Simplicity, 1980. Typescript
Interview by John Singleton, Australia, 1981 June. Typed transcript of radio broadcast and call-in period
"Free Enterprise and Energy from Heaven and Earth," 1981 June 12. Seminar, Council of Resources and Energy, Indooroopilly, Australia. Announcements, typescript, and typed transcript of question and answer period
Speech on Energy from Heaven and Earth, Hoover Institution Book Talks, Stanford, California, 1982 January 12
Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, 1987. Typescript
Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, 1987. Typescript
Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, 1987. Typescript
Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, 1973-1976
Scope and Content Note
General
Background material (for Panel I)
Contributions by Michael J. Deutch (mostly for Panel I)
Correspondence and memoranda
General
For Panel I
Distribution lists (for Panel I)
Essays for Volume II, edited by Irving Kristol and Paul Weaver
Membership lists
Minutes of meetings of Panel I, 1973-1974
Press release, 1973 November 18
Reports (three of which were eventually published in Volume I). Includes some correspondence and comments
Panel I (Edward Teller was asked to write the panel's report, entitled "Energy: A Program for Action")
Undated fragments
1973
1974
1974
1975
1975
1975
1976
Panel II
Panel III
Panel V
Panel VI
Panel VII
Proofs (mostly of Panel I's report)
Review of 14-volume series
Subject File, 1973-1984.
Scope and Content Note
Agricultural research and technology
Ames Research Center, NASA
Arms control
Art and technology
Campbell, W. Glenn
Civil defense
Computed tomography in medical research
Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science
Energy
General
General
General
Australia
Biomass
Canada
Coal
Conservation
Consumption
Conversion devices
Developing countries
Fusion
Fusion
Gas. See also Petroleum
Geothermal
Helium
Israel. See Solar
Methanol
Nuclear
Nuclear
Petroleum
Portugal
Solar
Storage devices
Taiwan
United States
General - Carter's energy policy
California
New York
Wave. See also Australia
Wind
Energy and the environment
First Strike (television documentary)
Futurism
Holography
India
International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology
Meteorology
New York Times
Nuclear arms
Freeze
Proliferation
Nuclear safety and artificial intelligence
Nuclear wastes
Nuclear wastes
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Transcript of hearing before the Personnel Security Board, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., 1954 April 12 -May 6
Statements issued by the Atomic Energy Commission, 1954 June 16 and 29
Press conference held by director Norris E. Bradbury, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1954 September 24. Includes press releases, annotated by Edward Teller
Miscellaneous
Clippings, 1954
Magazine articles, 1954 April-September. See also Box 36
Physics
Satellite remote sensing programs
Shell Oil Company
Space technology
Nuclear
Solar
Telecommunications in an energy crisis
Toth Aluminum Corporation
United States
Foreign relations - Taiwan
Politics and government
Presidential elections- 1984
Science Advisory Group meeting, 1975 July 17. Minutes
Printed Matter, 1954-1976.
Scope and Content Note
Journals, magazines, and book
Memorabilia, 1954-1973.
Scope and Content Note
Awards, citations, resolutions, medals, plaques, honorary degrees, and academic gown
Audio-Visual Material, 1955-1995.
Scope and Content Note
Videotape cassettes (97)
Undated
1976-1983
1983
1983-1988
1988-1992
1988-1989
1989. Includes typed transcript for interview of 1989 August 25
1989-1990
1990-1993. Includes transcript of an interview of G. Foster Evans, relating to relations between Teller and the physicist Stanislaw Ulam and to various aspects of economics and physics
1991-1992
1992-1995
Phonotapes (44)
Undated
1959-1972
1972-1975
Phonotape cassettes (178)
Undated
1959
1970s
1980-1983
1986-1989
1990-1992
1993-1995
Microcassettes, 1983-1989 (5)
Magnetic tapes, n.d. and 1991 (2)
Computer disk, n.d. (1)
Scope and Content Note
Motion picture film reels, 1955-1966
1) Edward Teller addressing unidentified audience, n.d. (16mm, silent, Ektachrome)
2) "Silent Force for Good," The Christopher Program, n.d. (late 1950s or early 1960s). Interview by the Reverend Christopher on the good uses of nuclear energy (16mm, sound, black and white, 507 ft.)
3) "Youth Wants to Know," NBC Television, 1955. Edward Teller answers questions from students on physics, with Steve McCormick moderating. Includes footage at end of program of Frederick De Hoffman from Los Alamos speaking on the Geneva Convention (16mm, sound, black and white, ca. 1000 ft.)
4) Appearance, Face the Nation, CBS, 1966 April 3. Edward Teller answers questions on Chinese nuclear weapons, deployment of defense systems, and international arms control (16mm, sound, black and white, ca. 1000 ft.)
5) Duplicate of 4)
Phonorecords, 1958-1984
1) Interview, Reader's Digest, 1958 February
2) Appearance, Meet the Press, NBC radio broadcast, 1963 September 1
3) Duplicate of 2)
4) "The Size and Nature of the Universe" and "The Theory of Relativity," n.d. Conversations by Edward Teller
5) Duplicate of 4)
6) "Leo Szilard: Inventor of the Atomic Bomb, 1933," 1984. Recollections by Leo Szilard
Oversize Material, 1954-1963.
Scope and Content Note
Drawings depicting Edward Teller, 1956-1963, and photo collage depicting him with others, 1954
Photographs, 1918-1964
Photographic prints
1 print of a portrait of Edward Teller; 1 print depicting Edward Teller's wife Augusta, 1964; 3 contact sheets of prints depicting Edward Teller,
7 prints depicting Edward Teller alone and with others, undated
4 prints depicting Edward Teller and General O'Neill at the SAMSO (Space and Missile Systems Organization) Advisory Group luncheon, April, 1968
1 print depicting Edward Teller and standing next to his portrait and its artists, Eva and Americo Makk; and 4 prints of Eva and America Makk with President Reagan and of their portraits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1984
1 print depicting participants of the Annual Military Research Associate briefing, March 12, 1969; and 1 print of an unidentified scientist at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, undated
1 contact sheet of prints depicting Leo Szilard, undated
5 mounted prints of Los Alamos and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; 2 prints depicting Edward Teller with others; 1 print depicting Edward Teller with wife Augusta; 5 prints depicting Edward Teller; 1 print depicting a nuclear explosion; and 1 print depicting a crater in Nevada, undated
5 albums of prints depicting Edward Teller at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, May 12, 1962; at the 101st anniversary celebration of engineering education at Pennsylvania Military College, Philadelphia, April 2, 1963; with J. Robert Oppenheimer and others, 1964; at the Mayo Clinic Centennial Symposium, Rochester, Minnesota, September 17-18, 1964; in South Africa, September 1973;
200 slides depicting alternate energy sources, 1918
Scanned images of photographic prints circa 1924-1997
Scope and Content Note
Incremental Materials
Scope and Content Note