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 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
Alvin M. Weinberg
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Alvin Martin Weinberg was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and
Alvin Weinberg, c. 1960
Eugene Wigner (left) with Weinberg (right) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Weinberg noting "6000 full-power hours!" of MSRE operation in 1967.
Weinberg speaks with Senator John F. Kennedy at Oak Ridge in 1959