Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

• 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

From the guide to the Edward Teller Papers, 1930-2003, (Hoover Institution Archives)