In his keynote speech, Mr Lawless made reference to how America became a global leader in research after the Second World War, as scientists such as Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, and ...

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 details his collaboration with other scientists, including Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, who alerted President Roosevelt to the threat of Nazi Germany's nuclear research.

When Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 2 August 1939 apprising him of the threat that an atomic bomb might be built, he naturally drew attention to work by Leo Szilard, the ...

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.

Enrico Fermi led the Metallurgical Laboratory, a group of secretive atomic scientists, in creating the first nuclear reactor. On the right is an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the ...

Enrico Fermi’s home (6), 5537 S. Woodlawn Ave. A few blocks to the northeast sits the home where Fermi lived with his wife, Laura, and their children, Nella and Giulio.

Though these women weren’t exactly household names in the same way that, say, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, or Isidor Rabi were, that doesn’t make their contributions—or the fact they were ...

A team including Szilard under exiled Italian physicist Enrico Fermi built it by stacking cylinders of natural uranium interspersed with blocks of a graphite moderator, which slowed down the ...