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Sunday, August 12, 2012

UC History: Teller Tells You About the Universe

A legacy of the World War II Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb was UC’s inheritance of the nuclear labs.  The photo from the early 1950s shows key personalities related to the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Left to right are Glenn Seaborg, Edward McMillan, E.O. Lawrence, Donald Cooksey, Edward Teller, Herb York, and Luis Alvarez.

Edward Teller, often dubbed the father of the H-bomb, was undoubtedly the most controversial of these individuals. Google him for the history. However, in the 1950s, he recorded a program for lay persons on the state of cosmology in that era.  You can hear it at:

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