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Apropos of Oppenheimer coming out, the guy who invented the H-bomb currently works as a covid researcher. (Or at least an amateur one, not sure what he’s actual
by Alex3917 3y ago
Apropos of Oppenheimer coming out, the guy who invented the H-bomb currently works as a covid researcher. (Or at least an amateur one, not sure what he’s actually doing.)
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoNot sure who you are referring to since Teller and Ulam both died a while ago.
- Alex3917 3y agoDick Garwin: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/science/who-built-the-h-bomb-debate-revives.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/science/who-built-the-h-b... https://rlg.fas.org/2020.htm https://rlg.fas.org/2020.htm
- dctoedt 3y agoWikipedia: "[Dick] Garwin received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi at the age of 21." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin
- pdonis 3y ago"Invented" is an overstatement. He authored the first detailed H-bomb design, but he didn't invent the design concept that it embodied: Teller and Ulam did. Teller instructed Garwin to produce a detailed bomb design based on the Teller-Ulam concept.