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Leo Szilard (/ ˈ s ɪ l ɑːr d /; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences.
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist who helped conduct the first sustained nuclear chain reaction and was instrumental in initiating the Manhattan Project for the development of the atomic bomb.
Oct 4, 2013 · Leo Szilard was the man who first realised that nuclear power could be used to build a bomb of terrifying proportions. Lisa Jardine considers what his story has...
Mar 4, 2019 · Leo Szilard (1898-1964) was a Hungarian-born American physicist and inventor who played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb. Though he vocally opposed using the bomb in war, Szilard felt it was important to perfect the super-weapon before Nazi Germany.
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 Berlin due to racial quotas, where he met several brilliant physicists such as Albert Einstein and Max Planck.
Szilard was the chief physicist at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory from February 1942 to July 1946. He worked for Arthur H. Compton, the head of the Met Lab. Szilard helped build Chicago Pile-1, the first neutronic reactor to achieve a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
View Leo Szilard, His Version of the Facts, p. 14-15 larger. “ This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in his world you don’t have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier than most people.”. (Szilard, His Version of the Facts, p. 14)
About Leo Szilárd. A Hungarian physicist, he was best known for encouraging Albert Einstein to warn President Roosevelt about the atomic bomb. He later worked with Enrico Fermi to construct the first nuclear reactor.
UCSD’s Department of Bioengineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering recently created the Leo and Trude Szilard Chancellor’s Endowed Chair to honor the Szilards for their contributions.
Jan 24, 2023 · Born 125 years ago, the Hungarian–American physicist Leo Szilard is best remembered for being the first scientist to call for atomic bombs to be developed – before later demanding they be stopped.
