Scientists
Physicists:
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (physicist)J. Robert Oppenheimer (physicist)
- John Wheeler (physicist)John Wheeler (physicist)
- Pauli effectPauli effect
- James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell
Computer scientists:
Science isn’t about WHY, it’s about WHY NOT?
Emanuel Lasker and Albert Einstein were friends. On one occasion Lasker visited Einstein in Princeton and presented him with an autographed copy of Go and Gomoku. In exchange, Einstein gave Lasker an autographed copy of one of his papers on relativity. Several years later, the autographed copy of Go and Gomoku showed up in a used bookstore in Baltimore. When told about this and asked what he thought of it, Lasker replied: “That’s all right. I left his relativity paper on the subway.”
Edward Teller (1908 – 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as “the father of the hydrogen bomb” and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design inspired by Stanisław Ulam. He had a volatile personality, and was “driven by his megaton ambitions, had a messianic complex, and displayed autocratic behavior.” He devised a thermonuclear Alarm Clock bomb with a yield of 1000 MT (1 GT of TNT) and proposed delivering it by boat or submarine to incinerate a continent.