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 ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

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 ...

UC San Diego’s Geisel Library has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to digitize the papers and materials of Leo Szilard, ... Enrico Fermi. Six years later, Szilard worked with Albert ...

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 ...

It's about the strange relationship between Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi and their attempts to create a controlled chain reaction. On Monday, Lanouette will be featured on a new program on The ...

Hopefully it serves as a reminder to the library’s users of Leo Szilard and his dream of peaceful scientific collaboration. ... he worked with Enrico Fermi at Columbia University in New York.

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.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This week we have two plays opening in Sydney featuring professors of physics. John Doyle's Vere ...

As World War II began winding down, Leo Szilard, the nuclear physicist whose ideas led directly to the creation of atomic weapons, began to have severe doubt about how his knowledge was being used.

In directing “Oppenheimer,” which has garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, Nolan relegates Enrico Fermi — the true architect of the nuclear age — to a bit part.