noun
United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
• Syn: ↑Teller
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑nuclear physicist
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(1908–2003) a US scientist who has been called the ‘father of the hydrogen bomb’. He was born in Hungary and became a US citizen in 1941. He worked on the first atom bomb during the ↑Manhattan Project and then led the team of scientists who created the first ↑hydrogen bomb, which was exploded in 1952.
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