Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-born physicist, biologist...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Einstein refrigerator (redirect from Einstein–Szilard refrigerator)
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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Halmos Theodore von Kármán John G. Kemeny John von Neumann George Pólya Leó Szilárd Edward Teller Eugene Wigner Franz Alexander Peter Carl Goldmark John...
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physicist Leó Szilárd attempted to alert Washington to ongoing Nazi atomic bomb research. The group's warnings were discounted. Einstein and Szilárd, along...
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Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory (redirect from Szilard engine)
principle have thermodynamic consequences was established in 1929 by Leó Szilárd, in a refinement of the famous Maxwell's demon scenario (and a reversal...
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A4200 road (section 1933 – Leó Szilárd insight)
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...
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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...
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