Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard · Science & Medicine
Nuclear Chain Reaction Concept
1898, Budapest, Austria-Hungary — 1964, La Jolla, California, United States
Hungary · Germany · United States
Leo Szilard is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nuclear Chain Reaction Concept
Szilard was a physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, later helping initiate the Manhattan Project by drafting the 1939 Einstein–Szilard letter to President Roosevelt, and who afterward campaigned for arms control. He was born into a Jewish family in Budapest and fled Nazi Germany.
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Source: Einstein-Szilard Letter 1939
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Concept
Source: Einstein-Szilard Letter 1939
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