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...when Einstein's fellow refugees Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner learned that German scientists had managed to split the atom, they sought Einstein's help. Einstein himself may have had only the faintest idea of the recent progress in nuclear physics, but after a briefing by Szilard and Wigner he agreed to write a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him to the possibility that the Nazis might try to make an atomic bomb. That letter is popularly credited (though its precise effect is unclear) with helping to persuade Roosevelt to order up the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic...
Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, Thursday received the Forum on Physics and Society's Leo Szilard Award for his research on biological and chemical weapons...
...award is named after Leo Szilard, a renowned physicist who "very early realized the public policy implications of science," Sheahen said...
...knew Leo Szilard and I respected him and loved him deeply; therefore I am deeply pleased about receiving this award," Meselson added...
...Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...