Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Astro Teller is the co-founder of Alphabet subsidiary “X.” He is the grandson of Edward Teller, the famous physicist often considered the father of the hydrogen bomb. 

Teller received his PhD in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Hertz Foundation Fellow. He was the co-founder of the company BodyMedia. Teller has helmed Google X since 2010, overseeing various projects including Google Glass and Google’s driverless car program.

Teller has published two novels, “Exegesis” and “Among These Savage Thoughts,” and one non-fiction book, “Sacred Cows.”

Gallery photos below courtesy of Astro Teller.

Edward Teller reading to his grandsons, Astro and Zander Teller

Edward Teller reading to his grandsons, Astro and Zander Teller

Edward Teller reading to his grandsons, Astro and Zander Teller

Edward Teller with his grandson, Astro

Edward Teller

Related Profiles

Lawrence Knox

Columbia University

Lawrence Knox was an American chemist. Knox was born in 1906 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He received a B.

Maurice Shapiro

Los Alamos, NM

Maurice “Maury” Shapiro was an American physicist who studied underwater explosions at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Manuel Schwartz

Los Alamos, NM

Manuel Schwartz was a physicist. He worked at Los Alamos as a civilian employee from about July 6, 1944, until January or February 1946.

Otto Frisch

Los Alamos, NM

Otto Frisch (1904-1979) was an Austrian-born physicist.  Frisch joined the Manhattan Project in 1943, but his most important contribution to the project came in 1940 in England.