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    The EinsteinSzilard letter was a letter written by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, that was sent to President of the United...
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    Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian born physicist...
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  • in 1939 EinsteinSzilárd refrigerator or Einstein refrigerator, a type of absorption refrigerator with no moving parts Szilard (crater) Szilárd petition...
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    of the EinsteinSzilard letter that urged the US government to initiate the Manhattan project for the development of nuclear weapons, Einstein was credited...
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    The Szilárd petition, drafted and circulated in July 1945 by scientist Leo Szilard, was signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project in Oak...
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    of World War II in Europe, Szilárd and Wigner visited Einstein to explain the possibility of atomic bombs, which Einstein, a pacifist, said he had never...
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    Hungarian émigré Leó Szilárd, having failed to arouse U.S. government interest on his own, worked with Einstein to write a letter to U.S. President Franklin...
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  • Competition. Einstein Foundation Berlin, a foundation in Berlin Einstein's Blackboard, Oxford, England (1931) Einsteinium, an element EinsteinSzilárd letter, a...
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    he participated in a meeting with Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein that resulted in the EinsteinSzilárd letter, which prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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    might develop nuclear weapons prompted Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to draft the EinsteinSzilárd letter to the President of the United States, Franklin...
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