Edward tylor190865438+10/5 was born in Budapest, Hungary, and died of a stroke in Stanford, California, USA on September 9, 2003. 1926 went to Germany to study, and 1930 received a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Leipzig. When Hitler's influence in Germany rose, he immigrated to the United States and taught at George Washington University. He was the first scientist to apply for the Manhattan Project. He was not the protagonist in the Manhattan project, but later he became the core figure to solve the most critical problem in the design of hydrogen bombs, so he was awarded the title of "father of hydrogen bombs" in the United States. After World War II, Taylor taught at the University of Chicago, served as the director of the Lawrence Limo National Laboratory for Nuclear Weapons Research, and then transferred to Stanford University. In 2003, President Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Edward tylor is an extremely important figure in the development of physics in the 20th century. 1935, together with physicists szilard and Wei Gena, he persuaded Einstein to tell US President Roosevelt about the potential threat of Nazi's atomic bomb development, thus contributing to the American atomic bomb plan. During the Second World War, together with contemporary physicists Fermi, Gamov, Bert and Landau, he successfully applied the new thinking of the physical universe such as quantum mechanics to the solution of practical problems, and developed atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, which showed the power of scientific thinking to change the historical destiny of the world.