"Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors."
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Jews from the United StatesPresidential Medal of Freedom recipientsAgnostics from the United StatesPhysicists from the United StatesPhysicists from Hungary
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As quoted in Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '87 (1988) edited by F. J. Duarte, p. 1165
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (15 January 1908 β 9 September 2003) was an American nuclear physicist, known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."
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