Leo Szilard was the man who first realised that nuclear power could be used to build a bomb of terrifying proportions. Lisa Jardine considers what his story has to say about the responsibilities ...

Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard By William Lanouette, with Bela Silard Scribner’s, 587 pages, $35 As a pure scientist, Leo Szilard helped shape statistical mechanics, nuclear ...

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 ...

Also on hand is Physics World’s Matin Durrani, who chats about the remarkable life of the Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard – who encouraged the US to develop nuclear weapons during the Second ...

Szilard, Leo Weart, Spencer R Szilard, Gertrud Weiss Subject Szilard, Leo Interviews Szilard, Leo Correspondence Date 1978 C1978 Call number QC16.S99 A1 QC16.S99A1 Type Biography Physical description ...

Leo Szilard, pictured circa 1945, circulated a petition to other Manhattan Project scientists, asking President Truman to reconsider using the atomic bomb on Japan.

Edwin Lyman is the director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate and Energy program. He is a co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of the book ...

On July 16, 1939, Szilard decided to force the issue. He left Columbia with a colleague and headed to Nassau Point. After much meandering — the physicists had no address, just a general sense of ...

The Collected Works of Leo Szilard. Edited by Bernard T. Feld and Gertrud Weiss Szilard — In this age of high specialization … it is extremely rare to find a person who encompassed and moulded ...

In 1933, Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard had realized the possibility of the nuclear chain reaction. In 1934, the first nuclear fission was achieved at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Lab by ...