EDWARD TELLER; The Real Dr. Strangelove
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. B&W photos. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, charcoal gray cloth with scarlet lettering on spine over black textured boards; 48 B&W photographic illustrations, black endpapers, xxv, [xxvi] + 469 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 13.5 oz. Fine / Near Fine. Item #6980
ISBN: 0674016696
Peter Goodchild CChem FRSC (born 1939) is a former BBC television editor, who notably edited Horizon and who initiated the popular 1980s BBC science series Q.E.D..
Edward Teller (1908 – 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb." Throughout his life, Teller was respected for his scientific ability but criticized for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality.
Dr. Strangelove was the mad scientist in Director Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedic movie, which starred Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, and Sterling Hayden.
Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb.
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