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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