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Person
Albert Einstein
Physicist who signed the letter of 1939 warning President Roosevelt of a possible atomic bomb.
- Dates
- 1879–1955
- Wikidata
- Q937
Connections 1
authored
- Einstein–Szilard letter 2 Aug 1939 Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1879–1955 Albert Einstein
- 2 Aug 1939 Albert Einstein authored Einstein–Szilard letter
Proof 1 source
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Manhattan Project: Einstein's Letter, 1939, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet), 1999.
Primary record
Einstein drafted his famous letter with the help of the Hungarian émigré physicist Leo Szilard
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