Szilard

[sil-ahrd]

noun

1. Leo, 1898–1964, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.

Szilard

/ ˈsɪlɑːd /

noun

1. Leo. 1898–1964, US physicist, born in Hungary, who originated the idea of a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (1934). He worked on the atomic bomb during World War II but later pressed for the international control of nuclear weapons

Szilard

1. Hungarian-born American physicist who introduced the concept of the nuclear chain reaction. With Enrico Fermi, he built the world's first nuclear reactor. Szilard was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb.

Example Sentences

One of that report’s signatories, Leo Szilard, who had been among the bomb’s earliest advocates, further sought to prevent what he had come to recognize as the catastrophic potential outcome of their creation.

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Szilard Demeter, the director of the Petofi Literary Museum, said that "inhumane dictatorships will still be inhumane and dictatorships, even if someone starts to portray them in a positive light."

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Hans Bethe, Neils Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard all contributed to this book and it was the first major publication that said we are in the atomic age.

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Even so, many scientists who favored an American atom bomb, including Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard, had fled the Nazis in Europe. had fled the Nazis in Europe.

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He enlisted the collaboration of a former student, Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist and mathematician.

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