“I always look upon him as a passionate
patriotic citizen of the country with a Hungarian
accent,” Sewell said. “Boy, he (Teller) was American
through and through. He certainly wanted to see the
American ideals passed on as much as possible.”
Bumped into Edward Teller
outside the reading room; I thought it was him, remarked
to Joe that he looked like Edward Teller, and Joe said:
That was the name on his tag. I hurried back, but the
professor had gone.He was father of the hydrogen bomb, I
explained to Joe, who had never heard the name, I
interviewed T. here, at this building fifteen years or so
ago for Penthouse.
If you really want to
shine in your class, write to Edward Teller, the “father
of the Hydrogen Bomb”, at Stanford and ask him the same
question: he knew Heisenberg really well.I know that
Teller is still there because when I was at Stanford a
couple of weeks ago, researching in their manuscript
archives, I bumped into him: a bit more bent, a bit
grumpier, but still the same old gentleman I once
interviewed — for Penthouse!