Leo Szilard
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Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain react
Szilard, c. 1915
Szilard petition
Szilard and Norman Hilberry at the site of CP-1, at the University of Chicago, some years after the war. The building was demolished in 1957.
Salk Institute
Einstein refrigerator
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The Einstein–Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invente
Leo Szilard
…contributed to the development of the linear accelerator (1928) in Germany. Between 1926 and 1930, he worked with Einstein on the development of the Einstein refrigerator. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, Szilard urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could. He moved to…
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