Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (born 1898)

Leo Szilard

Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (1898–1964)

Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936. In late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert…