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, ...

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.

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 ...

Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi, a winner of the Nobel Prize, ... Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard, Fermi and other scientists knew they needed to leapfrog the bureaucracy.

One of these was led by Enrico Fermi and the other by Walter Zinn and Szilard himself, who had moved to the US in 1938. As Szilard realized, the neutrons released when uranium nuclei break apart ...

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

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.