Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born physicist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936. In late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1944 wrote the Szilard petition asking President Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians. According to Györg
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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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2024-09-12T15:14:44Z
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