The Teller–Ulam design is a nuclear weapon design which is used in megaton-range thermonuclear weapons, and is more colloquially referred to as "the secret of the hydrogen bomb". It is named after two of its chief contributors, Hungarian born physicist Edward Teller and Polish born mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who developed the design in 1951.
Generational Link: Present Cycle - Era of Superpower America - First Turning, High (1945-1965)

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b. January 7, 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. March 8, 1874)
Generational Link: Civil War Cycle - Transcendental Generation - Prophet (Idealist) (1792-1821)

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1/7/1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons

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b. January 7, 1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. April 10, 1585) Sponsor of our Gregorian Calendar.

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