Leo Szilard
- Born: February 11, 1898 (Budapest, Austria-Hungary)
- Died: May 30, 1964 (La Jolla, California)
Education
- 1916–1917: Budapest Technical University
- 1919–1920: Technical Institute of Berlin
- 1920–1922: University of Berlin
- 1922: PhD, University of Berlin (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1917–1918: Austro-Hungarian Army, Soldier
- 1925–1928: University of Berlin, Assistant to Max von Laue
- 1928–1933: University of Berlin, Privatdozent in Physics
- 1934–1935: St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Researcher
- 1935–1938: Oxford University, Research Fellow, Clarendon Laboratory
- 1939–1942: Columbia University, Unofficial Researcher
- 1942–1942: Columbia University, Researcher, Division of War Research
- 1942–1946: Manhattan Project, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Researcher
- 1946–1964: University of Chicago, Professor of Biophysics
- 1964–1964: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Research Fellow
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1962–1964: Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Council for a Livable World
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
University of California at San Diego, Geisel Library, Mandeville Special Collections Library, La Jolla, California
Online Finding Aid
Published Resources
Eugene P. Wigner, "Leo Szilard: 1898-1964", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Herbert L. Anderson, "The Legacy of Fermi and Szilard," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists September (1974): 56-62.
Herbert L. Anderson, "Fermi, Szilard and Trinity," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists October (1974): 40-47.
Helen S. Hawkins, G. Allen Greb, and Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds., Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987)
Spencer R. Weart and Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds., Leo Szilard, His Version of the Facts: Selected Recollections and Correspondence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978)
William Lanouette with Bela Silard, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992)
David A. Grandy, Leo Szilard: Science as a Mode of Being (New York: University Press of America, Inc., 1996)
István Hargittai, The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Bernard Feld, "Leo Szilard, Scientist for All Seasons," Social Research 51 (1984): 675-690
Berton J. Bernstein, "Leo Szilard: Giving Peace a Chance in the Nuclear Age," Physics Today 40 (1987): 40-47
William Lanouette, "Ideas by Szilard, Physics by Fermi," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 48 (1992): 16-23
Michael Bess, "Peace through Cooperative Diplomacy: Leo Szilard's Vision of a Superpower Duopoly," in Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, ed. Michael Bess (Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1993), 41-90
Gene Dannen, "The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerators," Scientific American 276 (1997): 9-13
Tibor Frank, "Ever Ready to Go: The Multiple Exiles of Leo Szilard," Physics in Perspective 7 (2005): 204-252
