Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian born physicist...

The Einstein–Szilard 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...

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...

from Europe to the United States in the early half of the 20th century. Leo Szilard, who jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars...

by a team of about 30 that, in addition to Fermi, included scientists Leo Szilard (who had previously formulated an idea for non-fission chain reaction)...

was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd, who patented it in the U.S. on November 11, 1930 (U.S. patent 1,781...

The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (originally called the Leo Szilard Award) is given annually by the American Physical Society (APS) for "outstanding accomplishments...

American physicist Leó Szilárd (1898–1964), Jewish Hungarian-American physicist Leo Beenhakker (born 1942), Dutch football manager Leo Bosschart (1888–1951)...

principle have thermodynamic consequences was established in 1929 by Leó Szilárd, in a refinement of the famous Maxwell's demon scenario (and a reversal...

to separate isotopes by chemical means. The Szilard–Chalmers effect was discovered in 1934 by Leó Szilárd and Thomas A. Chalmers. They observed that after...

physicist Leó Szilárd attempted to alert Washington to ongoing Nazi atomic bomb research. The group's warnings were discounted. Einstein and Szilárd, along...

away to the northwest. On 12 September 1933, the Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd, an exile from Nazi Germany, was crossing Southampton Row at the junction...

came to know and fund some of the research of refugee nuclear physicist Leo Szilard. During World War II Strauss served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve...

Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was founded by Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd in May, 1946, primarily as a fundraising and policy-making agency. Its...

for generations. The idea originated with Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard, in February 1950. His intent was not to propose that such a weapon be...

and Edward Teller, and collaborates with the scientists Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, and David L. Hill at the University of Chicago. Teller's calculations...

David Strathairn as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Michael Tucker as Dr. Leo Szilard. It premiered in the United States on March 5, 1989 on the CBS network...

Obsession". Life. Retrieved January 29, 2019. Szilard, Leo. (1987) Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control. Cambridge:...

Hungarian ice dancer Leo Szilard (1898–1964), Hungarian physicist 38442 Szilárd, main belt asteroid discovered in 1999 Einstein–Szilárd letter, sent to Franklin...

May 13, 2008). Bernard T. Feld; Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds. (1972). The Collected Works of Leo Szilard: Scientific Papers. MIT. p. 15. ISBN 0-262-06039-6...

Genius in the Shadows is a 1992 biography of Leo Szilard by William Lanouette. Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-German-American physicist who is most well...

came to power in Germany and suppressed Jewish scientists. Physicist Leo Szilard fled to London where, in 1934, he patented the idea of a nuclear chain...

US Army Major General Joachim von Ribbentrop: German foreign minister Leó Szilárd: Nuclear physicist, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory Hans...

cobalt bomb was originally described in a radio program by physicist Leó Szilárd on February 26, 1950. His intent was not to propose that such a weapon...

Wigner participated in a meeting with Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein that resulted in the Einstein–Szilard letter, which prompted President Franklin...

around them intensely radioactive, nuclear weapons theorists such as Leo Szilard conceived of a doomsday machine, a massive thermonuclear device surrounded...

Met Lab, represented in part by Leó Szilárd, put forth a petition to President Harry Truman in July 1945. The Szilárd Petition urged Truman to use the...

Germany might develop nuclear weapons prompted Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to draft the Einstein–Szilárd letter to the President of the United States...

New York: Doubleday, OCLC 456825 Szilard, Leo (1978), Weart, Spencer R.; Szilard, Gertrude Weiss (eds.), Leo Szilard: his Version of the Facts: Selected...

only full member state located outside Europe. EMBL was the idea of Leó Szilárd, James Watson and John Kendrew. Their goal was to create an international...