Born 125 years ago, the Hungarian–American physicist Leo Szilard is best remembered for being the first scientist to call for atomic bombs to be developed – before later demanding they be stopped. But ...

What he couldn't predict was how a strange conjunction of his friends and acquaintances - notably Winston Churchill, who'd read all Wells's novels twice, and the physicist Leo Szilard - would turn ...

Seventy-five years ago, Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard wrote a letter to United States President Franklin Roosevelt expressing concern that German scientists would soon unlock the ...

Together with Szilard and Wigner, these rank among the superstars of 20th century physics. Did the United States understand what they were getting when they allowed the physicists in? A stream of ...

Anguished, the forty-seven-year-old physicist called up a young friend of his, the inventor and scientist Leo Szilard. “There must be a better way,” Einstein pleaded. Szilard, a stocky man of ...

Less well known, even among physicists, is his work with Leo Szilard to develop an energy efficient absorption refrigerator with no moving parts. Szilard was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1898 ...

In August 1939, Albert Einstein signed the letter, authored by physicist Leo Szilard, that urged Roosevelt to fund research into the possibility of using nuclear fission as a weapon. Einstein and ...

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Szilárd develops geophysical models to infer the history of planetary interiors and surfaces from spacecraft observations. This has included his search for sub-surface oceans within Saturn's icy ...