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 ...

Leo Szilard (1898–1964) occupies a singular place in the history of science and international security. Known for his foundational work in nuclear physics and his pivotal role in launching the ...

When physicist Hans Bethe first heard of the atomic bomb project he thought it an impractical idea and he didn't want to get involved with it. He told a biographer after the war that, "I considered ...

What was Christopher Nolan thinking? 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.

What if Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, the primary physicists from the Manhattan Project, returned to contemporary America to survey their atomic legacy? That question forms the ...

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has it all wrong. The eponymous Robert Oppenheimer, who served as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb, did not usher ...

Garwin (S.M. ’48, Ph.D. ’49) worked with Enrico Fermi at the University before designing the first hydrogen bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He later advised the government on national security and ...

In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...