Category:Leó Szilárd

Leó Szilárd
	Physicist and biologist
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Date of birth	11 February 1898; Budapest
Date of death	30 May 1964; La Jolla; natural causes; ; myocardial infarction;
Place of burial	Fiumei Street Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	Hungary; Germany (1930); United States of America (March 1943);
Educated at	Technical University of Berlin; Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Humboldt University of Berlin;
Doctoral advisor	Max von Laue;
Occupation	nuclear scientist; inventor; physicist; engineer; university teacher; science fiction writer;
Employer	Humboldt University of Berlin; Technical University of Berlin; Columbia University; University of Chicago; Brandeis University;
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Physical Society; Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists;
Field of work	atomic physics; molecular biology; physics;
Award received	Atoms for Peace Award; Humanist of the Year (1960); Albert Einstein Award (1960); National Inventor Hall of Fame; Fellow of the American Physical Society;
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English: Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Budapest under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in La Jolla, California.