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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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    collaborator Einstein in August 1939, and persuaded him to sign the letter, lending his fame to the proposal. The EinsteinSzilárd letter resulted in the...
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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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  • ice dancer Leo Szilard (1898–1964), Hungarian physicist 38442 Szilárd, main belt asteroid discovered in 1999 EinsteinSzilárd letter, sent to Franklin...
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    declassified and made public until 1961. Later, in 1946, Szilárd jointly with Albert Einstein, created the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists that...
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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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    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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    Wigner participated in a meeting with Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein that resulted in the EinsteinSzilard letter, which prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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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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    American economist and banker. In October 1939 he delivered the EinsteinSzilard letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, suggesting that nuclear-fission...
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