Leo Szilard
Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences.
Leo Szilard - Nuclear Museum - Atomic Heritage Foundation
Leo Szilard was born Leo Spitz on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Hungary. He developed an interest in physics at age thirteen and attended public school.
Leo Szilard | Nuclear Reactor, Patent Holder & Scientist | Britannica
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist who helped conduct the first sustained nuclear chain reaction and was instrumental in ...
Manhattan Project Scientists: Leo Szilard (U.S. National Park Service)
While Szilard was a key player in the development of the atomic bomb, he was very suspicious of having the Manhattan Project be under military ...
Manhattan Project: People > Scientists > LEO SZILARD - OSTI.GOV
He suspected that beryllium might be such an element, but Szilard was a relative unknown in the nuclear physics community and he found little support for ...
Leo Szilard | Biographies - Atomic Archive
Leo Szilard (1898 - 1964). Leo Szilard was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 11, 1898. Due to racial quotas, he had to go to the Institute of Technology in ...
Leo Szilard - Jewish Virtual Library
(1898 - 1964) ... Leo Szilard is best known for his pioneering work in nuclear physics, his participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his ...
Flashback Friday: Who is Leo Szilárd? – EMBL Archive
Although Szilárd had succeeded in helping to create the nuclear bomb, he failed in his passionate attempts to restrain its use. After Hiroshima, ...
Leo Szilard: the physicist who envisaged nuclear weapons but later ...
Leo Szilard is best remembered for being the first scientist to call for atomic bombs to be developed – before later demanding they be stopped.
Leo Szilard - - Carlson Caspers
Leo Szilard was born into a Jewish family in 1898 in Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was drafted into the army in 1916 at the height of ...
LEO SZILARD, THE RELUCTANT FATHER OF THE ATOM BOMB
It was. Leo Szilard who initiated the trip, just after his successful experiment with the first chain reaction in uranium atoms. He was prompted to visit the ...
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award | American Physical Society
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award. To recognize outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society in such areas ...
Clashing colleagues - The University of Chicago Magazine
Two physicists, one Italian, one Hungarian, shared the US patent for the first manmade nuclear reactor. Enrico Fermi's and Leo Szilard's skills were ...
Szilard Petition - Nuclear Museum - Atomic Heritage Foundation
Leo Szilard drafted the petition below to the President in the summer of 1945 attempting to avert the U.S.'s use of the atomic bomb against Japan.
Leo Szilard Papers | Collection | UC San Diego Library
The papers document Szilard's work on the atomic bomb and his efforts on behalf of arms control and world cooperation through his correspondence, writings, and ...
The Szilárd petition, drafted and circulated in July 1945 by scientist Leo Szilard, was signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project in Oak ...
The Szilard Hypothesis on the Nature of Aging Revisited - PMC
This year marks the 50th anniversary of a nearly forgotten hypothesis on aging by Leo Szilard, best known for his pioneering work in nuclear physics, ...
The Collected Works of Leo Szilard - MIT Press
Leo Szilard's work ranged from physics to biology; he crossed over with ease from the world of neutrons to that of neurons, from the nuclei of atoms to the ...
Why isn't Leo Szilard better known? : r/AskPhysics - Reddit
He discovered the neutron chain reaction in 1933 and worked on it in secrecy for years after that, so he knew a lot about it when Uranium ...