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    The EinsteinSzilard letter was a letter written by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, that was sent to President of the United...
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    Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian born physicist...
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  • in 1939 EinsteinSzilárd refrigerator or Einstein refrigerator, a type of absorption refrigerator with no moving parts Szilard (crater) Szilárd petition...
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    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...
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    of World War II in Europe, Szilárd and Wigner visited Einstein to explain the possibility of atomic bombs, which Einstein, a pacifist, said he had never...
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    Hungarian émigré Leó Szilárd, having failed to arouse U.S. government interest on his own, worked with Einstein to write a letter to U.S. President Franklin...
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    of the EinsteinSzilard letter that urged the US government to initiate the Manhattan project for the development of nuclear weapons, Einstein was credited...
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    might develop nuclear weapons prompted Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to draft the EinsteinSzilárd letter to the President of the United States, Franklin...
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  • Competition. Einstein Foundation Berlin, a foundation in Berlin Einstein's Blackboard, Oxford, England (1931) Einsteinium, an element EinsteinSzilárd letter, a...
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    American economist and banker. In October 1939 he delivered the EinsteinSzilárd letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, suggesting that nuclear-fission...
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    he participated in a meeting with Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein that resulted in the EinsteinSzilárd letter, which prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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    Commission in 1947. August 2: Albert Einstein signs the letter (EinsteinSzilárd letter), authored by physicist Leó Szilárd and addressed to President Franklin...
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    letter: Audio letter Business letter Cease and desist letter Chain letter Cover letter Crossed letter Dear John letter Epistle Fan mail Form letter Hate...
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    Szilárd had envisioned six years previously. On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (written by Szilárd)...
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    persuaded Albert Einstein to lend his name to a letter directed to President Franklin Roosevelt. On 11 October, the EinsteinSzilárd letter was delivered...
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    of the Lend-Lease funds. In August 1939, Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein sent the EinsteinSzilárd letter to Roosevelt, warning of the possibility of a...
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    consumer goods. In August 1939, physicists Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein sent the EinsteinSzilárd letter to Roosevelt, warning of the possibility of a...
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    concluded that a nuclear chain reaction was feasible and possible. The EinsteinSzilárd letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned that this breakthrough...
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    the result of the EinsteinSzilárd letter, but had not made significant progress. It was instructed in Roosevelt's June 15 letter to report to the NDRC...
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    was the first choice of Albert Einstein, whom he met years earlier in New York, to deliver the EinsteinSzilárd letter alerting President Roosevelt about...
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    countries. August 2 The Einstein-Szilárd letter is sent to President Roosevelt. Written by Leó Szilárd and signed by Albert Einstein, it warned of the danger...
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    about nuclear weapons (The Manhattan Project) started with the EinsteinSzilárd letter. With a scientific team led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan...
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    by Frisch, in the British review Nature. 11 October 1939 – The EinsteinSzilárd letter, suggesting that the United States construct a nuclear weapon,...
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  • billionaire co-owner Richardson. Physicist Leo Szilard, famous as author of the EinsteinSzilárd letter to President Roosevelt, lived with his wife Trudy...
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    collaborator Albert Einstein in August 1939, and convinced him to sign the letter, lending his prestige to the proposal. The EinsteinSzilard letter resulted in...
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  • – October – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt receives the EinsteinSzilárd letter and authorizes the creation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium...
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    Edith Mitchill Prellwitz. Albert Einstein was staying in Peconic in 1939 when he signed the famous EinsteinSzilárd letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
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  • Sachs was a banker and economist, best known for delivering the EinsteinSzilárd letter to Franklin Roosevelt, and convincing him to begin research into...
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    roots began in 1939 when, at the urging of Leó Szilárd, Albert Einstein signed the EinsteinSzilárd letter to US president Franklin D. Roosevelt expressing...
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    United States, three of them, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Albert Einstein, were moved to write the EinsteinSzilárd letter to the President of the United...
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