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Person
Leo Szilard
Physicist who helped draft the letter of 1939, and in 1945 wrote a petition against using the bomb on Japan without terms.
- Dates
- 1898–1964
- Also known as
- Leó Szilárd
- Wikidata
- Q153238
Connections 2
authored
- Einstein–Szilard letter 2 Aug 1939 Primary record 1
- Szilard petition 17 Jul 1945 Scholarship & press 2
Timeline 3 dates
- 1898–1964 Leo Szilard
- 2 Aug 1939 Leo Szilard authored Einstein–Szilard letter
- 17 Jul 1945 Leo Szilard authored Szilard petition
Proof 2 sources
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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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Szilard Petition, 17 July 1945, Atomic Heritage Foundation / National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, 17 Jul 1945.
Scholarship & press
Leo Szilard drafted the petition below to the President in the summer of 1945
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