San Franciscans who tune in on TV station KQED next month (july 1955 - my annotation) will see one of the world's most distinguished scientists in a rare and unusual appearance. Dr. Edward Teller, chief architect of the H-bomb, has de. scended briefly from his high plateau of abstruse thought and is going before the public with a televised layman's primer on what he affectionately calls "my subject": the atom.
The three half-hour shows, enlivened by props like soap bubbles and umbrellas , fulfill Teller's long-standing wish to let laymen in on the ordered beauty of the atom. When KQED hesitantly approached him three months ago, Teller startled them by accepting with enthusiasm. Teller will escort his audience over such tricky terrain as atomic structure and the properties of light and gases, illustrating the tininess of the atom by the old rhyme, "Fleas have little fleas/On their backs to bite 'em/And these fleas have littler fleas/And so ad infinitum."
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