List of Famous people with last name Szilard

Leó Szilárd

First Name Leó

Last Name Szilárd

Born on February 11, 1898

Died on May 30, 1964 (aged 66)

Born in Hungary

Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. According to György Marx he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians.

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