Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian born physicist...

The Einstein–Szilard letter was a letter written by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, that was sent to President of the United...

The Szilárd petition, drafted and circulated in July 1945 by scientist Leo Szilard, was signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project in Oak...

was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd, who patented it in the U.S. on November 11, 1930 (U.S. patent 1,781...

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American physicist Leó Szilárd (1898–1964), Jewish Hungarian-American physicist Leo Beenhakker (born 1942), Dutch football manager Leo Bosschart (1888–1951)...

physicist Leó Szilárd attempted to alert Washington to ongoing Nazi atomic bomb research. The group's warnings were discounted. Einstein and Szilárd, along...

principle have thermodynamic consequences was established in 1929 by Leó Szilárd, in a refinement of the famous Maxwell's demon scenario (and a reversal...

Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was founded by Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd in May, 1946, primarily as a fundraising and policy-making agency. Its...

away to the northwest. On 12 September 1933, the Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd, an exile from Nazi Germany, was crossing Southampton Row at the junction...

by a team of about 30 that, in addition to Fermi, included scientists Leo Szilard (who had previously formulated an idea for non-fission chain reaction)...

to separate isotopes by chemical means. The Szilard–Chalmers effect was discovered in 1934 by Leó Szilárd and Thomas A. Chalmers. They observed that after...

may refer to: Look up szilárd in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Szilárd Bogdánffy (1911–1953), Hungarian catholic bishop Szilárd Borbély (1963–2014),...

cobalt bomb was originally described in a radio program by physicist Leó Szilárd on February 26, 1950. His intent was not to propose that such a weapon...

May 13, 2008). Bernard T. Feld; Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds. (1972). The Collected Works of Leo Szilard: Scientific Papers. MIT. p. 15. ISBN 0-262-06039-6...

Norman Hilberry (left) and Leó Szilárd at Stagg Field, site of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain-reaction...

US Army Major General Joachim von Ribbentrop: German foreign minister Leó Szilárd: Nuclear physicist, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory Hans...

Szilard is a damaged lunar impact crater that lies to the east-northeast of the crater Richardson. It is named after Leó Szilárd, the scientist who theorised...

was the director. Among Laue's notable students at the university were Leó Szilárd, Fritz London, Max Kohler, and Erna Weber. He published the second volume...

reportedly first hypothesized by Hungarian scientist Leó Szilárd on September 12, 1933. Szilárd that morning had been reading in a London paper of an...

neutrons was first realized shortly thereafter, by Hungarian scientist Leó Szilárd, in 1933. He filed a patent for his idea of a simple reactor the following...

fridges as of 2021. In 1926, Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd proposed an alternative design known as the Einstein refrigerator. At...

Met Lab, represented in part by Leó Szilárd, put forth a petition to President Harry Truman in July 1945. The Szilárd Petition urged Truman to use the...

many, Leó Szilárd for example, that Germany would develop an atomic weapon. As a result of two meetings with Albert Einstein, the first with Szilárd and...

only full member state located outside Europe. EMBL was the idea of Leó Szilárd, James Watson and John Kendrew. Their goal was to create an international...

project's roots began in 1939 when, at the urging of Leó Szilárd, Albert Einstein signed the Einstein–Szilárd letter to US president Franklin D. Roosevelt expressing...

La Falaise, French film director, Croix de guerre recipient (d. 1972) Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964) February 12 Wallace Ford, British...

instance, it was German professor Einstein and his Hungarian colleague, Leó Szilárd, who took the initiative and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt...

recipients were: 1957 – Niels Bohr 1958 – George C. de Hevesy 1959 – Leó Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter Henry Zinn...

In cost-benefit analyses of scientific grant proposals, the Szilard Point refers to the scenario in which the expenses incurred in obtaining a grant (E)...