Szilard, who, with Enrico Fermi, the first sustained nuclear reaction led directly to the development of bomb, now devotes full time to the . hopes to pass his goal of 25,000 as possible.

The film discusses the pivotal role of physicist Enrico Fermi during World War II, ... It details his collaboration with other scientists, including Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, ...

Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Under the stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szliard, and three dozen other ...

Right away, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and others recognized the importance of these so-called "delayed neutrons" in controlling the chain reaction.

Dr. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian-born Jewish scientist reputed to be one of the greatest physicists of this century, died at his home here yesterday at the age of 66. Together with the late Dr. Enrico ...

Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard By William Lanouette, with Bela Silard Scribner’s, 587 pages, $35 As a pure scientist, Leo Szilard helped shape statistical mechanics, nuclear ...

Of the two men who worked most closely on the nuclear chain reactions that made the atomic bomb possible, one, Enrico Fermi, died of cancer. In 1959 the other, Leo Szilard, went to his doctors ...

From 1942, until the war ended, Szilard, with fellow physicist Enrico Fermi, conducted the first controlled chain reaction (nuclear reactor) at the University of Chicago.