Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (1898–1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leó Szilárd February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor.[1] He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
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