Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences at Penn State, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. The award ...

Quantum computers, machines that perform computations exploiting quantum mechanical phenomena, could eventually outperform classical computers on some tasks, by utilizing quantum mechanical resources ...

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 such a ...

Dr. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian-born Jewish scientist reputed to be one of the greatest physicists of this century, died at his home here yesterday at the age of 66. Together with the late Dr. Enrico ...