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Leo Szilard (1898–1964) occupies a singular place in the history of science and international security. Known for his foundational work in nuclear physics and his pivotal role in launching the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Yesterday marked Leo Szilárd's one hundred ...

Physicist Leo Szilard, the scientist who conceived of a nuclear chain reaction, worked on the Manhattan Project when he moved to the United States. * Photo: Corbis * 1933: Physicist Leo Szilard gets ...

UC San Diego’s Geisel Library has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to digitize the papers and materials of Leo Szilard, the late physicist whose work on nuclear chain reactions helped lead to the ...

While almost everybody knows how Einstein revolutionized physics with his theories of relativity, many people may not know that the great scientist had a domestic side, too. Well, sort of - in 1930, ...

In a remarkable collaboration, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard advanced the world of refrigeration with a groundbreaking patent. Their design ingeniously harnessed chemical reactions to achieve ...

__1930: __Albert Einstein and fellow nuclear scientist Leo Szilard receive an American patent for a new kind of refrigerator that requires no electricity. The most famous physicist of the 20th century ...

Bulletin online columnist Pavel Podvig, member of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and research associate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, received ...

The Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs turns 30 on July 7. Leo Szilard, the physicist who since 1945 had been proposing just such a meeting of Russian and Western scientists to discuss ...