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Vor 6 Tagen · Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist who helped conduct the first sustained nuclear chain reaction and was instrumental in initiating the Manhattan Project for the development of the atomic bomb. In 1922 Szilard received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin and joined the staff of.
Vor 5 Tagen · In August 1939, Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner drafted the Einstein–Szilard letter, which warned of the potential development of "extremely powerful bombs of a new type". It urged the United States to acquire stockpiles of uranium ore and accelerate the research of Enrico Fermi and others into nuclear chain ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In the days before and after the first demonstration of a nuclear weapon (the Trinity test in July 1945), Hungarian Leo Szilard circulated the Szílard petition, which argued that a demonstration to the Japanese of the new weapon should occur prior to actual use on Japan, and that the weapons should never be used on people. In ...
20. Mai 2024 · He also came to know and fund some of the research of refugee nuclear physicist Leo Szilard. During World War II Strauss served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and rose to the rank of rear admiral due to his work in the Bureau of Ordnance in managing and rewarding plants engaged in production of munitions.
Vor 5 Tagen · Hayeks erstes Seminar in Chicago war über Wissenschaftsphilosophie, an dem viele der bedeutendsten Wissenschaftler der Universität von Chicago teilnahmen, darunter Enrico Fermi, Sewall Wright und Leó Szilárd. Während seiner Zeit in Chicago beschäftigte er sich mit Wissenschafts-, Wirtschafts-, Politik- und Ideengeschichte ...
10. Mai 2024 · Mary Holmes (EMBL Librarian 1974-1998) explains the background to the Leo Szilard library at EMBL Heidelberg in conversation with Thomas Vaccari (EMBL Predoc...
13. Mai 2024 · Lise Meitner beobachtete die Verwendung der Kernenergie für Waffensysteme äußerst kritisch. Sie ähnelte darin ihrem langjährigen Partner Otto Hahn und anderen Pionieren der Kernphysik wie etwa Albert Einstein (der jedoch, auf Vorschlag von Leó Szilárd, Präsident Roosevelt dringend zum Bau der US-Atombombe aufforderte). Lise ...
