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Leó Szilárd

nuclear physicist

Leó Szilárd

Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)

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Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist, 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 Einstein–Szilard letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1945 wrote the Szilard petition asking president Harry S. Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians. According to György Marx, he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians.

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Occupation: nuclear physicist, inventor, physicist, university teacher
Citizenship: Hungary, Germany, United States
Born: February 11, 1898
Died: May 30, 1964

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