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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
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Dr. Scott Hsu is Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Energy for Science and Innovation and DOE Lead Fusion Coordinator for a crosscutting “all-of-DOE” effort to accelerate fusion energy RD&D. Scott is concluding his tenure as a Program Director at ARPA-E, where he launched the BETHE and GAMOW fusion programs. Prior to ARPA-E, Scott was a plasma and fusion research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Scott testified to the Energy Subcommittee of the House Science Committee in 2016 on innovative fusion concept development, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a co-recipient of the 2002 APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. Scott earned a Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences (Program in Plasma Physics) from Princeton University and a B.S summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
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