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	Leó Szilárd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Szilard was probably the first scientist to seriously examine the science behind the creation of nuclear weapons, as he knew about the fictional "atomic bombs" described in H.
		Szilard was well known to his colleagues as an eccentric, lightning-quick thinker who "seemed fond of startling people" with strange, seemingly incongruous, yet extremely perceptive statements and questions.
		Although nuclear fission had not yet been discovered, Szilard was reportedly so annoyed at this dismissal that he conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for traffic lights to change on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Szilard (995 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Leo Szilard
		Leo Szilard was born on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Austro-Hungary.
		Szilard was the drafter of a July 17, 1945 petition to the US president opposing the use of the bomb on moral grounds.
		Szilard and Fermi were awarded a patent for the nuclear fission reactor in 1955.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_szilard-leo.htm (516 words)

	Leo Szilard
		Leo Szilard is best known for his pioneering work in nuclear physics, his participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his opposition to the nuclear arms race in the postwar era.
		Szilard's studies focused on the anomalous scattering of X-rays in crystals and the polarization of X-rays by reflection on crystals.
		Szilard and his colleagues Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller hoped to gain the financial support of the United States Government in underwriting the cost of a definitive, large-scale experiment to prove that a sustained nuclear chain reaction was possible.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Szilard.html (2313 words)

	Leo Szilard
		Leo Szilard (1898-1964), a native of Budapest and naturalized US citizen elected to Academy membership in 1961, was noted for his contributions to the fields of thermodynamics, biophysics, nuclear physics, and the development of atomic energy.
		Szilard, experimenting in collaboration with Fermi, Zinn, and Anderson, proved the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction, but he may be best known for his role in the initiation of the Manhattan Project for developing an atomic bomb during World War II.
		In 1945, when the Manhattan Project had produced an atomic bomb, Szilard circulated a petition, signed by a number of his fellow atomic scientists, asking that the bomb not be used against Japan.
	www.nas.edu /history/members/szilard.html (242 words)

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		Leo Szilard, along with Enrico Fermi, was awarded a patent for the nuclear fission reactor in 1955.
		Szilard fully understood the implications of nuclear fission, and it was he who coordinated the letter sent to President Roosevelt from Einstein encouraging the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
		Leo Szilard was born in Budapest, Hungary; during World War I, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army, interrupting his studies at the Budapest Institute of Technology.
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	Leo Szilard \| Biography \| atomicarchive.com
		Leo Szilard was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 11, 1898.
		As the war continued, Szilard became increasingly annoyed at the fact that he was losing power over his scientific developments to the military, and he clashed many times with General Leslie Groves.
		In 1943, Szilard became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. By 1945, it was clear that the U.S. was planning to use the bomb against Japan.
	www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Szilard.shtml (523 words)

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		Szilard, Leo, (si´lard) (KEY), 1898-1964, American nuclear physicist and biophysicist, born in Hungary.
		Szilard was later opposed to the construction and use of all nuclear weapons...
		This prompted physicist Leo Szilard to call it a "doomsday device" since it was capable of wiping out...
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	Leo Szilard
		Szilard had already tried to prevent all the theoretical and experimental work on uranium that was done outside of Germany from publication, and ran into several conflicts with other scientists, so the only other thing left for him to do was restrict access to the Congo uranium.
		Szilard, however, was "an independent gadfly" of the project, in the words of Stephane Groueff: "He would rove through the labs, suggesting revolutionary approaches to the problems, sounding the alarm about Hitler's military advances, and often asking some young scientists to switch from one experiment to another.
		Szilard went beyond the cost-benefit calculations justifying the murder of a hundred thousand innocent people in order to prevent the death of a million; he was able to see the long-term consequences of the weapon, which his contemporaries could not even grasp until it was too late.
	repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu /classes/tcc313/200rprojs/manhattan/szilard_main.html (2276 words)

	Leo Szilard
		Leo Szilard, the son of a Jewish civil engineer, was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1898.
		Szilard was appointed a lecturer in physics in 1929.
		In 1945 Szilard and James Franck circulated a petition among the Manhattan Project scientists opposing the use of the atomic bomb on moral grounds.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SCszilard.htm (1136 words)

	Leo Szilard and the Atomic Bomb
		The physicist Leo Szilard was born on Feb. 11, 1898 in Hungary.
		Szilard felt this restriction on the sharing and development of ideas was slowing down the project.
		Szilard was one of the main authors of the Franck Report in June, 1945.
	www.doug-long.com /szilard.htm (689 words)

	Invention and Discovery: Atomic Bombs and Fission
		Leo Szilard and the Invention of the Atomic Bomb
		On July 4, 1934 Leo Szilard filed a patent application for the atomic bomb In his application, Szilard described not only the basic concept of using neutron induced chain reactions to create explosions, but also the key concept of the critical mass.
		Szilard's actions in attempting to restrict the availability of the atomic bomb, are also the earliest case of nuclear arms control.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Usa/Med/Discfiss.html (1259 words)

	Leo Szilard Online
		On 18 April, a Szilard centennial session was held at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society.
		Aaron Novick, Leo Szilard's longtime collaborator in molecular biology, died December 21, 2000 at the age of 81.
		Leo Szilard's unpublished papers and correspondence are held by the Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego.
	www.dannen.com /szilard.html (655 words)

	Leo Szilard and H.G. Wells, founders of the Green Left
		Szilard was too sophisticated to think that the inductive logic of natural science could be transferred to the infinitely more obtuse and intractable questions of politics, and he readily acknowledged the rift between physical problems and social problems.
		Szilard did not need to "obey" these commandments, for (in the words of his widow) they already reflected his spirit "like a portrait." Scientific inquiry, personal life, and social action were inseparable for him; he brought the same intellectual habits and moral values to an three.
		Szilard's record of the interview does not say whether Khrushchev was amused, but the length of the ensuing conversation suggests that the Soviet premier had seen through the devices of the razor and the political wisecrack and understood that Szilard was more interested in peace than in political partisanship.
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	Leo Szilard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leo Szilárd (February 11, 1898 - May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
		He hoped that the US Government, which before the war was much opposed to the bombing of civilians, would not use the bomb, as the only possible purpose of a weapon of that magnitude could be to slaughter civilians.
		Before the war, Szilard had considered the US the one truly humane government in the world; that is why he chose to give THEM, over everyone else, the atomic bomb.
	www.explainthis.info /le/leo-szilard.html (600 words)

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		Well, consider that Szilard was one of the most versatile and mobile geniuses of the twentieth century.
		Szilard lived in four countries, and most of my time has been spent tracking down letters, documents, and memories from his far-flung life.
		Aaron Novick, Szilard's long-time collaborator in molecular biology, told me many stories over the years about their work at the University of Chicago.
	www.dannen.com (616 words)

	The Hindu : Leo Szilard: A prolific inventor
		Szilard conceived the idea that it might be possible to break up atomic nuclei, releasing energy.
		LEO SZILRD (pronounced Selaerd) was born on February 11, 1898 in Budapest (Hungary).
		Szilard became the crusading scientist bent on bringing to the American Congress fearful implications of nuclear war.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/09/20/stories/08200008.htm (600 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leo Szilard (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Leo Szilard[si´lArd] Pronunciation Key, 1898–1964, American nuclear physicist and biophysicist, born in Hungary.
		He was educated at the Budapest Institute of Technology and the Univ. of Berlin, receiving a doctorate from the latter in 1922.
		Szilard was one of the first to realize that nuclear chain reactions could be used in bombs and was instrumental in urging the U.S. government to prepare the first atomic bomb, but he later actively protested nuclear warfare and supported the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Szilard.html (213 words)

	Leo Szilard
		There, Szilard was instrumental in the development of the Manhattan Project.
		As a survivor of the 'shipwreck' of Hungary, first under Bela Kun's red terror and Horthy's white terror, Szilard developed an enduring passion for preservation of human life and freedom, especially freedom to communicate ideas.
		Rather than threatening the Axis with the bomb, Truman chose simply to use it, despite the protestations of Szilard and many of the other top scientists in the project, resulting in the deaths of roughly 300,000 Japanese, the total destruction of Hiroshima, and the partial destruction of Nagasaki.
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	Leo Szilard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leo Szilard (1898-1964), a native of Budapest and naturalized US citizen elected to the Academy in 1961, was noted for his contributions to the fields of thermodynamics, biophysics, nuclear physics, and the development of atomic energy.
		Szilard, experimenting in collaboration with Fermi, Zinn, and Anderson, proved the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction, but he may be best known for his role in the initiation of the Manhattan Project for developing the atomic bomb during World War II.
		In 1945, when the Project had produced an atomic bomb, Szilard circulated a petition, signed by a number of his fellow atomic scientists, asking that the bomb not be used against Japan.
	www7.nationalacademies.org /archives/szilard.html (270 words)

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		Leo Szilard was among the most influential scientists of his era.
		Szilard moved to New York in 1938, fearing the outbreak of war in Europe was imminent.
		Just as Szilard had been the first to call for the development of the atomic bomb in America he, ironically, was the first to organize opposition against its use.
	www.lanl.gov /history/people/L_Szilard.shtml (473 words)

	Amazon.com: Genius in the Shadows : A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hungarian-born Szilard was at the epicenter of the Manhattan Project--indeed, he patented the first reactor design with Enrico Fermi--but his concern over the destructive uses of atomic power (and a degree of personal eccentricity) isolated him from the celebrity (and Nobel prizes) that came to other founding fathers of quantum physics.
		Leo Szliard was a mental gypsy from the old world who saw the new world before most of the other "famous" thinkers of the 20th Century even opened their eyes.
		Leo Szilard's life is traced from his early childhood in Budapest, Hungary through his student days in Berlin; and the development of the first atomic reactor and bomb.
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	Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, August 2, 1939
		Given the seriousness of the situation, Szilard's request was quite modest.
		Szilard produced a four-page draft letter, which he mailed to Einstein on July 19.
		This was the version, dated August 2, that Szilard gave to Sachs for delivery to the President.
	www.dannen.com /ae-fdr.html (643 words)

	Szilard Library - Leo Szilárd
		Leo Szilárd was born in Budapest in 1898.
		But equally aware of the danger at that time of Nazi Germany developing an atomic bomb first, he pressed the US government to support nuclear research and in 1939 helped persuade Albert Einstein to write to President Roosevelt advocating the immediate development of the atomic bomb.
		Thus, Leo Szilárd became one of the key scientists involved in the Manhattan Project.
	library.embl-heidelberg.de /leo.html (388 words)

	Leo Szilard
		Szilard was awarded a patent for the nuclear fission reactor along with Enrico Fermi.
		Throughout his life, Szilard made significant contributions to the field of statistical mechanics, nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, genetics, molecular biology, and political science.
		Leo Szilard - Szilard, Leo, 1898–1964, American nuclear physicist and biophysicist, born in Hungary.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0767090.html (79 words)

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		Leo Szilard, 62, is a Hungarian-born physicist who helped persuade President Roosevelt to launch the A-bomb project...
		The physicist Leo Szilard was born on Feb...
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	Register of Leo Szilard Papers - MSS 0032
		Also included are letters (1936-1960), in German, from Szilard to Gertrude Weiss Szilard, his wife, and annotated drafts of the letter written with Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt disclosing developments in nuclear fission.
		Szilard's Speeches date from the close of his direct involvement with the atomic bomb after World War II and his shift into public life as an advocate of disarmament.
		Szilard's original folder numbers (where the items were found) or have been given a subject title.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /speccoll/testing/html/mss0032a.html (4710 words)

	Leo Szilard: A Personal Remembrance -- Maas 167 (2): 555 -- Genetics
		Szilard died in his sleep in La Jolla on May 30, 1964.
		Szilard was born in Budapest on September 11, 1898.
		Szilard used this as the basis of a clever work of science fiction.
	www.genetics.org /cgi/content/full/167/2/555 (2358 words)

	American Experience \| Truman \| Primary Sources
		Szilard, who is one of the discoverers of the neutron emission of uranium on which all present work on uranium is based, described to me a specific system which he devised and which he thought would make it possible to set up chain reactions in unseparated uranium in the immediate future.
		Having known him for over twenty years, both for his scientific work and personally, I have much confidence in his judgement and it was on the basis of his judgement as well as my own that I took the liberty to approach you in connection with this subject.
		In the circumstances I consider it my duty to give Dr. Szilard this introduction and I wish to express the hope that you will be able to give his presentation of the case your personal attention.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/truman/psources/ps_einstein2.html (301 words)

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