Re: Article on Edward Teller

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

Now that we are telling Edward Teller stories:



In 1959, I heard Edward Teller give the Glidden Lecture in Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University (I was a fledgling graduate student).  Teller actually said in his talk that the only way Sr-90 could get into milk was if cow bone chips got into the milk (in the words of Dave Barry:  I am not making this up).  I told this to my (Viennese) father, who commented "Well, what do you expect from a Hungarian?"  This from a man whose brother in law, my Uncle Lazlo, was Hungarian.



No flaming, please.  I don't think this detracts at all from Teller's many and significant accomplishments, not the least of which was elucidation of the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller isotherm for surface reactions  (Paul Emmett was one of my professors at Hopkins).  I just think it's a good story.



Ruth







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