Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard was a Hungarian born physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea in 1936, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. According to György Marx, he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians. Together with Enrico Fermi, he applied for a nuclear reactor patent in 1944. In addition to the nuclear reactor, Szilard coined and submitted the
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Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard
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2002-06-12T13:35:42Z
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2024-09-03T11:32:03Z
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